Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Unhelpful traceback compiling expression

[Tavis R. <ta...@re...>]

Done.  It's in the cvs now.  Let me know if it works as expected.

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 3:33 pm, Mike Orr wrote:
> #if ${site_logic.has_search()}
>
> Produces a long traceback ending in:
>
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/Cheetah-2.0rc6-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/Cheetah/Parse
>r.py", line 789, in getCheetahVar
>     return self.getCheetahVarBody(plain=plain)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/Cheetah-2.0rc6-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/Cheetah/Parse
>r.py", line 793, in getCheetahVarBody
>     return self._compiler.genCheetahVar(self.getCheetahVarNameChunks(),
> plain=plain)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/Cheetah-2.0rc6-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/Cheetah/Compi
>ler.py", line 199, in genCheetahVar
>     if nameChunks[0][0] in self.setting('gettextTokens'):
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> It would be nice if the error message said, "You dummy, the long ${}
> form can be used only with placeholders in the text, not in
> expressions."