#10 Not a valid plugin error

[Anonymous]

I'm encountering a problem that I do not understand. I'm a newbie, and so I'm probably just doing something silly and could use a little advice. I have a plug called "Foo" and an info file describing it called "Foo.yapsy-plugin". Yet when I turn on "debug", I see that the PluginManager outputs an error stating that:

DEBUG:yapsy:Foo.py is not a valid plugin for strategy info_ext

Can you give me any advice on how to resolve this? The contents of the Foo.yapsy-plugin file:

[Core]
Name = Foo Plugin
Module = Foo

[Documentation]
Author = me
Version = 0.1
Website = N/A
Description = Placeholder

and Foo.py:

from yapsy.IPlugin import IPlugin

class Foo(IPlugin):
    def __init__(self):
        # initialise parent class
        IPlugin.__init__(self)

    def print_name(self):
        print "Foo"

    def ordering(self):
        return 100

Your help is much appreciated!
Ralph

[Anonymous]

You shouldn't have to worry about using the init function in a plugin. You should override activate if there is any code to run when your plugin is loaded.

[Thibauld Nion]

Sorry for the very late answer, but I guess you found the solution already: the debug log you see is 100% normal as yapsy is (probably in your case, it depends on the setup) looking for files ending by ".yapsy-plugin".

But the look-up scans all the files including of course Foo.py which is not a valid plugin description file.

Did something more occured that let you think there was a big problem ?