Re: [Webware-discuss] Webware install.py - curious thing

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

If you're on UNIX with Python 1.5.2, then:

   exec someString

will fail with a syntax error, *if* someString contains CRLF endings 
(CRLF=\015\012).

But at the command line, "python someFile.py" will work just fine. And I 
guess you just discovered a file object with exec will work as well. 
Perhaps that and the python command line use readline() which doesn't have 
the same CRLF problems as read()?  I don't know; that's just speculation.

I also don't know if Py 2.0 has this problem or not.


In any case, if you do a "cvs update" you'll get my new code which simply 
removes the CRs. I tested on BSD with Py 1.5.2.

Please try again and let me know if you have problems,

-Chuck




At 10:28 AM 12/24/2000 -0500, Dave wrote:
>I don't understand why, but in  install.py:readProperties() the exec fails 
>on the CGIWrapper Properties.py unless I alter the current CVS line:
>
># does not work for me, fails with SyntaxError on the first line
>exec open(filename).read() in results
>
>to this:
># works for me
>exec open(filename) in results
>
>anyone else seen this? According to the docs there is some wierdness when 
>exec'ing strings that don't end with a newline, but that doesn't seem to 
>be the case here.
>
>Dave.
>
>
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