[Chris Withers] | Any ideas? I've seen similar stuff from the python interpreter. Could I see the complete script?

Chris Withers wrote:

Hi,

Is it just me or are the errormessages from parse and syntax errors in PythonScripts from Zope 2.4 next to useless?

For a certain definition of useless, yes.

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Script line 1 REQUEST = context.REQUEST ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This isn't where the error is,

But it's where python *thinks* the error is. For a certain class of syntax errors, python cannot tell you exactly where the error is. I have no reason to give you why this is, but Python is not the only language effected by this, C programmers are often confronted by compiler errors reported on the next or previous line from the actual error. I wouldn't doubt it if other langauges have this problem for certain classes of errors also. That's just life. What's odd is that you said it's an indentation error. When I try this script with python 2.1: print 'hi' for i in range(10): print 'foo' I don't get a SyntaxError, I get an IndentationError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/tmp/python-2029Osa", line 4 print 'foo' ^ IndentationError: expected an indented block Notice that it also points to a weird place. -Michel