Difficulty with "inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation" in file called <string>

[ibloom]

On Feb 11, 9:10 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:57:00 -0200, ibloom <ianmbl... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > My main problem is, I don't know where to find the file:
> >   File "<string>", line 628
>
> > As in I don't know what code it is refering to by <string> ??
> > It isn't code that I wrote, its something from python or pyObjC
>
> Mmm, didn't you get my previous post? The call is inside the py2app  
> package. Quoting myself:
>
> >> <string>: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   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)
>
> > Put a print statement just above that line, to see which file triggers  
> > the
> > error.
>
> In case it wasn't clear, modify the file  
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packag es/py2app/py2app/util.py,  
> around line 13, in the find_version function, adding this print statement:
>
>      print 'about to compile', fn
>      ast = compiler.parseFile(fn)
>
> The last line printed (in case there are many) should be the offending  
> filename.
>
> Of course you don't have to keep the modified library, this is just to  
> detect which file triggers the error. You should report this to the py2app  
> developers as well.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Gabriel, your the master.
Of course I didn't understand that py2app was trying to compile my own
python source code and when I switched to Xcode as my new editor, I
started mixing in tabs. So <string> was in fact my code. All I had to
do was change my preferences in Xcode, to generate spaces instead of
tabs, remove all of the offending tabs and voila. You've ended days of
frustrations. Thank you.

Ian Bloom