SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "      ", line 16, in <module>
    d[alpha].append(eval(line.strip('<th class=\"tableright\">&pound;</th>br')))
  File "<string>", line 1
    <th class="tableright">&pound;4.95</th>
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Process finished with exit code 1

elif 'th' in line and not line.islower():
      d[alpha].append(line.strip('<th class=\"tableleft\"</th>*'))

elif 'th' in line and line.islower():
      d[alpha].append(eval(line.strip('<th class=\"tableright\">&pound;</th>br')))
 

>>>from collections import defaultdict
>>>d=defaultdict(list)
>>>a='<th class=\"tableright\">4.95&pound;</th>br'
>>>d['k'].append(eval(a.strip('<th class=\"tableright\">&pound;</th>br')))
>>>d
defaultdict(<class 'list'>, {'k': [4.95]})