Please help debug.

Hello!

Can anyone see any error in this piece of code? (It is not made by me, but I cannot get it to work. It yields

./install.py: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `faile(c'
./install.py: line 5: `def faile(cmd):'

when I utilize it.

Below is the code.

Thanks in advance,

Ronny Mandal


-- start --
# !/usr/bin/env python

import os,sys,shutil,re

def faile(cmd):
print '%s: Running %s failed' % (sys.argv[0],cmd)
sys.exit(1)

if os.name=='posix': # unix?
origdir=os.getcwd()
dir='install'
#if not os.path.isdir(dir):
# os.mkdir(dir)
os.chdir(dir)

print 'Generating makefile using qmake.........'
cmd='qmake'
failure=os.system(cmd)
if failure: faile(cmd)

print 'Attempting make...'
cmd='make'
failure=os.system(cmd)
if failure: faile(cmd)

print 'Cleaning objekt files....'
cmd='rm *.o Makefile'
failure=os.system(cmd)
if failure: faile(cmd)

cmd='mv MuseSveis ../'
failure=os.system(cmd)
if failure: faile(cmd)

os.chdir(origdir)
print 'Run by typing MuseSveis'
else:
print 'Use linux!!\n'

-- end --

The first error is that the code has not been posted with [ CODE] tags, so the indentation is lost.

I can't find the second error until the first is fixed.

Dave - The Developers' Coach

--

Sorry, here it is again.

Regards,

RM

First problem that comes to mind is that os.system() returns 0 if the command goes well - since to OS's 0 is true and none 0 is false, on the other hand, Python sees this a little differently. What this means to you?

Is you need to change lines like this..



into something like..



I may be wrong, but that makes a lot of sence to me . Then i am a little odd .

Hope this helps,

Mark.

You might also want to loose re, and shutil from your import statment since they are not being used anywhere in the program as of yet . This means that you have to waist time importing something your program never uses.

Mark.

thanks alot, but I still get the error message 'error near unexpected token..." as recently.

It seems like they've done a wrong declaration of the 'faile'. Or...

Hmm..

I appreciate all help.


Cheers!

That line looks ok, but is it possible that it is not using the regular ASCII character set? If it is has a character from the extended unicode char set in the line, then it may make Python choke. That is the only thing I can think of that would cause that error message.

Try examining the original file in hex.

Dave - The Developers' Coach