[python-win32] non descriptive error

[Steve Holden]

Timothy Smith wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>> Timothy Smith wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> i try to run my app and i get this
>>>
>>> %python DutyShift.py
>>> error
>>>
>>>
>>> thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did 
>>> make some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more 
>>> descriptive message then just "error". anyidea where i need to start 
>>> looking?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I would look inside *your* program! I don't ever remember Python 
>> producing any message so terse and unhelpful.
>>
>> A way to check this would be to run python interactively and enter the 
>> statement
>>
>> import DutyShift
>>
>> though this won't necessarily run all the logic that gets run by your 
>> command.
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
>>  
>>
> FYI it was a wrongly indented block. which is strange because i have 
> seen python produce helpful messages on similar occasions. a bug in the 
> interperter maybe??
> 

This probably should be reported if you can reproduce it, though I 
honestly don't understand how the compiler could produce such a message.

regards
  Steve
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