You're right, but you're asking that web2py knows in advance all the possible combinations of your view fragments your app uses and what your app doesn't. I'd say we can only make the error message clearer, but we can't know what is to be considered "trash" or not in your views folder....
On Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:39:29 PM UTC+2, rick817 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've finally had the chance to track down the source of the problem. > > The simple explanation is that gluon/compileapp.py attempts to compile all > the files in the > project's view directory regardless of whether they are: > > a) .html files > b) part of the current project > > I occasionally like to leave copies of heavily modified source files lying > around > 'just in case'. It seems that the "missing pass" error referred to one or > more of these 'fragments'. > I spent a not inconsiderable amount of time carefully checking all of my > views before I realised > what was going on. > > Even if the faulty file is part of the project no useful error message > (that allows the source to > be identified or even narrowed down) is output by the compiler. > > As a temporary workaround adding the line: > > print file > > or similar immediately prior to line 440 in compileapp.py helps to > identify the problem file in such situations. > > I've not looked into it but I suspect similar problems might occur when > the controllers and models directories > are processed by the compiler. > > Hope this helps any one else who runs into similar problems. > > Rick. > --
