"McBooCzech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Newbie in Python. > I did copy the whole script form the web and save it as para1.py. I did > download pyparsing module and save it to > C:\\Python23\\Lib\\pyparsing122. > I did run following script: > > import sys > sys.path.append('C:\\Python23\\Lib\\pyparsing122') > > from pyparsing import * > extraLineBreak = White(" ",exact=1) + LineEnd().suppress() > text = file("Para1.py").read() > newtext = extraLineBreak.transformString(text) > file("para2.py","w").write(newtext) > > I did try to run para2.py script, but following message > > File "para2.py", line 169 > choose(4,"You give your correct clearance",5,"You lie and claim > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > > So my questions are: > Why pyparser didn't correct the script? > What I am doing wrong? > Is it necessary to correct the script by hand anyway? > > Petr > Petr -
After running the little script, I still had to make one correction by hand, on line 1057. There was a line that needed to be indented that wasn't. This little pyparsing script only takes out the line-breaks that were added because of the news server's word wrapping algorithm, and does not catch indentation errors. After correcting that by hand, I ran the program para2.py successfully. Did you extract *just* the Python code in the previous post? I did not find the line you listed as line 169 in either my pre-pyparsing nor post-pyparsing versions of the program. In para1.py, your line 169 shows up as my line 159, in para2.py, it is line 152, and it looks like: choose(4,"You give your correct clearance",5,"You lie and claim Ultraviolet clearance") (of course, this is likely to get word-wrapped again, but the point is, it includes the rest of the quoted string after the word 'claim'). What encoding are you using? I am currently working on a Unicode-compatible pyparsing, and this may help resolve your problem. Since your e-mail domain country code is cz, it's possible that the encoding for spaces and/or line breaks is treated differently. This is just a wild guess. Anyway, in the interest of tracking down a potential pyparsing problem, could you please e-mail me your para1.py file? -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
