help with Installer?

[Lance]

Thanks Steven,

The CR\LF was the problem. I stripped the \r's from the code and everything
works fine.

Lance

"Steven Taschuk" <staschuk at telusplanet.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1046060919.26921.python-list at python.org...
> Quoth Lance:
> > I'm using McMillan's Installer (www.mcmillan-inc.net).
>   [...]
> > I receive a syntax error on the first line (import webbrowser) when
running
> >
> > python Build.py myfile.spec
>
> What is the complete error message and traceback?
>
> > However, line 1 is probably not the problem. I created a simple test
file,
> > foo.py, with the same import statements and a print 'hello world' as the
> > last and only executed line in the file, after the import statements. I
had
> > no problems creating the executable using McMillan's Installer.
>
> It would be helpful to see the code.  Could you post the file
> which is failing?  (Cut it down as far as possible first, making
> sure that the cut down version fails in the same way as the
> original.  Post no more than, say, ten or twenty lines.)  It would
> also help to see the working version.
>
> The contents of that .spec file might also be nice to see.  (I
> don't know anything about McMillan's Installer, so can't be sure
> one way or the other.)
>
> > I have only two ideas. First, my program uses command line arguments.
Maybe
> > some dummy arguments need to be supplied when running Makespec.py.
[...]
>
> Hm.  I'd be surprised if this is relevant; absence of expected
> command-line arguments will just cause sys.argv[1] or whatever to
> fail at runtime (and not with a syntax error, but with an
> IndexError).  But the installer's just compiling your program, I
> assume, not running it.
>
> > [...] Second,
> > the file was copied from a DOS machine and has the DOS CR\LF at the ends
of
> > the lines.
>
> Since you think this might be relevant, why not test it? That is,
> remove the CRs and see if the result works.  On Unixlike boxes:
> $ tr -d '\r' <foo.py >tmp~
> $ mv tmp~ foo.py
> or in Python:
> text = open('foo.py').read()
> text = text.replace('\r', '')
> open('foo.py', 'w').write(text)
>
> --
> Steven Taschuk                             staschuk at telusplanet.net
> "I may be wrong but I'm positive."  -- _Friday_, Robert A. Heinlein
>