Glad to be of help. :-)
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 8:25:19 PM UTC-5, SallyG wrote: > > Anthony, > > With renewed confidence after your thoughtful reply I created a new > directory and my 10 line program worked and behaved perfectly. > > I believe all your diagnosis is correct and I was simply befuddled. > > Thank you for helping me over my initial frustration. The power of > these 10 lines of code demonstrates web2py will be a great tool in > accomplishing my tasks. > > Sally > > On Dec 6, 9:33 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > after I removed the content of the default index.html and > > > added my own 5 lines, I got complaints about (non-existent) line 84. > > > > When there is an error in a view file, the line number reported is not > the > > line number of the original view file, but the line number of the code > > after the entire view has been translated to Python. The translated code > is > > the code shown in the error ticket page, so the line number should match > up > > there. This is mentioned > > here:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/03#errors. > > > > > When I moved my index.html to index.html.hold, I got complaints about > > > the content of the now absent file. > > > > When a function is called and there is no corresponding view file, if > > generic views are enabled (which they are by default in the 'welcome' app > > for local requests), web2py will use the generic view -- so even if you > > have removed index.html, it will still render whatever is returned by > your > > index function. Perhaps that is what is happening here. If you show some > > code and tracebacks, we might be able to help further. > > > > Anthony > >
