All suggestions that I will check out, but this is actually character for character from the web2py site. I guess that's why I am scratching my head. That and the fact that the debug references text that is not on the page. I am always leery of platforms that do a lot for you, sometimes you give up control of important aspects. It points to a line of code that is in my file and not a dynamically generated platform file.
but thanks I will check these suggestions out and see what gives. --jerry On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:56:30 AM UTC-5, Gerald Klein wrote: > > I am working through the tutorial on the web2py site, checking web2py out > and I keep getting errors for things I can't see. Like > > type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> non-keyword arg after keyword arg > (default.py, line 14) > That code does not exist on the page. The prior code is: > *def index():** session.counter = (session.counter or 0) + 1** > return dict(message="hello", session.counter)* > > > the last line is line 14? > > Does anyone have an idea of what this is? > > thanks > > --jerry > >

