Difficulty with "inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation" in file called <string>
ibloom
ianmbloom at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 10:34:17 EST 2008
I've been trying for a couple days to build a program using pyObjC on
a mac, I'm stuck on this error:
<string>: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 59, in ?
setup(**setup_options)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/build_app.py", line 342, in run
self.initialize_plist()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/build_app.py", line 415, in
initialize_plist
plist = self.get_default_plist()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/build_app.py", line 294, in
get_default_plist
version = find_version(target.script)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
python2.4/site-packages/py2app/py2app/util.py", line 13, in
find_version
ast = compiler.parseFile(fn)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/compiler/transformer.py", line 48, in parseFile
return parse(src)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/compiler/transformer.py", line 52, in parse
return Transformer().parsesuite(buf)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/
python2.4/compiler/transformer.py", line 129, in parsesuite
return self.transform(parser.suite(text))
File "<string>", line 628
else:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I don't even know which file has the indentation problem.
Any thoughts.
Ian Bloom
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