Jesse Harris wrote:
for d in Decks.all(): #loop thru all available decks
self.response.out.write('<OPTION>'+d.name) self.response.out.write('<OPTION>'+d.description)
self.response.out.write('</SELECT></div>')
self.response.out.write('<div style="float:left">')

<type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: invalid syntax (main.py, line 206)

      args =
('invalid syntax', (r'C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\bangagears2\main.py', 206, 78, 
"                
\t\tself.response.out.write('<OPTI...elf.response.out.write('<OPTION>'+d.description)\n"))

      filename =
r'C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\bangagears2\main.py'

      lineno =
206

      message =
''

      msg =
'invalid syntax'

      offset =
78

      print_file_and_line =
None

      text =
"                
\t\tself.response.out.write('<OPTI...elf.response.out.write('<OPTION>'+d.description)\n"



There are so many things wrong I'm not sure where to begin.

This excerpt of code isn't nearly enough to compile, since it references lots of symbols not defined. And it's not formatted the same as your original. Your original definitely had tabs in it, as well as the normal spaces for indenting, which is asking for trouble. You shouldn't use the name 'self' when you're not inside a method definition (it's not an error, but it is sure confusing).


If I take my best guess at some class and method definitions, and paste this fragment into a method of a class, and fix the indenting to what I might guess you were planning, it compiles and runs without problems. But I expected that, since the error is supposed to be in column 78, and you didn't have that many columns in your posting. Even if I add back in the two tabs you omitted, and count them as eight characters each, we're still ten characters short.

Finally the error line displayed is not included in your excerpt. Since the error message used ellipses in its quoting of the line, we can't see it all. But if I had to guess, I'd say it was a case of mismatched quotation marks. Or two lines combined together (note the two occurrences of self.response.out.write() )

DaveA

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