On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Marie ROBICHON wrote:

I get an error when I try to test the menu_list script:

Error Type: ValueError Error Value: list.index(x): x not in list

on line 18: top_parent_index=folder_list.index(parent_folders[-1])

Since I am a real newbie to Python it may be something obvious here, any clues anyone?

The error message is literal enough: whatever object the last entry in parent_folders refers to isn't showing up in folder_list. parent_folders should be a list of all the parents of an object, and the last element should be a top-level folder. Maybe the list got reversed an extra time, or never reversed at all? I'd focus my examination on the list_top_folders and list_parent_folders scripts. PS: in looking at list_parent_folders here, I'm going to have to look back and determine if I really meant to have the ids2.reverse() line indented inside the for loop or not. It's probably supposed to be at the same level of indentation as the for loop, so that it would only get run once. One may not be able to write illegible Python code, but undocumented Python code comes pretty close. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu