#10 Pychecker index error on first run (Windows 7)

[Stewart Paton]

I've just installed pychecker on windows 7 Pro using "python setup.py install". When I run it on my script using the command:

c:\Python26\Scripts\pychecker.bat -#100 finaltest17.py

I get the following error/traceback:

C:\Users....\ToBeReleased>C:\Python26\python.exe C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\checker.py -#100 finaltest17.py
Processing module finaltest17 (finaltest17.py)...
Caught exception importing module finaltest17:
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pcmodules.py", line 533, in setupMainCode()
self.moduleName, self.moduleDir)
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pychecker\utils.py", line 184, in findModule()
handle, filename, smt = _q_find_module(p, path)
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pychecker\utils.py", line 162, in _q_find_module()
if not cfg().quixote:
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pychecker\utils.py", line 39, in cfg()
return _cfg[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\checker.py", line 364, in <module>
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\checker.py", line 337, in main
importWarnings = processFiles(files, _cfg, _print_processing)
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\checker.py", line 270, in processFiles
loaded = pcmodule.load()
File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pcmodules.py", line 477, in load

return utils.cfg().ignoreImportErrors

File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pychecker\pychecker\utils.py", line 39, in cfg
return _cfg[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

If you could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks

Stewart

[Stewart Paton]

Problem resolved.
I found the following support request which refers to a need to use short format (8.3) path and filenames in pychecker.bat and not long format as is allowed in newer versions of Windows.
https://sourceforge.net/p/pychecker/support-requests/7/#96cb