Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-12 Thread Ron Adam
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Timothy Smith wrote: > i have NO idea what in there could be making it have such a strange error. it just says "error" when you try run it. there nothing terribly strange being done. > > >> i am still coming across this error it's driving me nuts. usually

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Timothy Smith wrote: >>> i have NO idea what in there could be making it have such a strange >>> error. it just says "error" when you try run it. there nothing terribly >>> strange being done. > i am still coming across this error it's driving me nuts. usually i can > find what's wrong, but it i

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-11 Thread Timothy Smith
Fredrik Lundh wrote: >Timothy Smith wrote: > > >>i have reproduced the error in this code block >> >>#save values in edit >>self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() >>if >>Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) >>== Decimal('0'): >>#box mus

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-10 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 09 October 2005 06:12 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >By looking at the source code for DutyShift.py? > > > well DUH thank you captain obvious! Well, since you apparently missed the subtlety, you DID NOT GIVE ADEQUATE INFORMATION if you expected to get some kind of a

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Timothy Smith wrote: > it is definately a bug in 2.3 when using the decimal module. i can > reproduce it. > > from decimal import Decimal > a = Decimal('0' > > and when you attempt to run it you will get "error" $ python script.py File "script.py", line 3 ^ SyntaxError: inva

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Timothy Smith wrote: > i have reproduced the error in this code block > > #save values in edit > self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() > if > Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) > == Decimal('0'): > #box must be checked before continuing

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Robert Kern
Timothy Smith wrote: > it is definately a bug in 2.3 when using the decimal module. i can > reproduce it. > > from decimal import Decimal > a = Decimal('0' > > and when you attempt to run it you will get "error" > > of course i do understand that decimal wasn't part of 2.3, but atleast > now

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Ron Adam
Timothy Smith wrote: > i have reproduced the error in this code block > > #save values in edit > self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() > if > Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) > > == Decimal('0'): > #box

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Neil Hodgson wrote: >Timothy Smith: > > > >>FYI i have located where the problem was. in the first if statement >>there was an unbalanced ). now since when does python not give a >>descriptive error for that? >> >> > >I see this with the arrow pointing at the extra ')': > > >pythonw -u "xx.p

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Neil Hodgson
Timothy Smith: > FYI i have located where the problem was. in the first if statement > there was an unbalanced ). now since when does python not give a > descriptive error for that? I see this with the arrow pointing at the extra ')': >pythonw -u "xx.py" File "xx.py", line 3 if Decimal

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:12:13AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > >>FAYI i have already found it and it was a wrongly indented code block :/ >> >> > >When indentation leaves an illegal program structure, Python gives a very >informative error message, such as > >

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread jepler
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:12:13AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > FAYI i have already found it and it was a wrongly indented code block :/ When indentation leaves an illegal program structure, Python gives a very informative error message, such as File "/tmp/x.py", line 3 return 3

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: >i have reproduced the error in this code block > >#save values in edit > self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() > if >Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) > >== Decimal('0'): >

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
i have reproduced the error in this code block #save values in edit self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() if Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) == Decimal('0'): #box must be ch

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Terry Hancock wrote: >On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:57 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > > >>i try to run my app and i get this >> >>%python DutyShift.py >>error >> >>thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make >>some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more desc

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-07 Thread Tomasz Lisowski
Timothy Smith wrote: > i try to run my app and i get this > > %python DutyShift.py > error > > > thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make > some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive > message then just "error". anyidea where i need to st

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Holden
Timothy Smith wrote: > i try to run my app and i get this > > %python DutyShift.py > error > > > thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make > some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive > message then just "error". anyidea where i need to st

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should tell us more about DutyShift.py, without the code it is very difficult for other people to guess what's going on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-07 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:57 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > i try to run my app and i get this > > %python DutyShift.py > error > > thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make > some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive > message then just

non descriptive error

2005-10-06 Thread Timothy Smith
i try to run my app and i get this %python DutyShift.py error thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive message then just "error". anyidea where i need to start looking? -- http://mail.python.org