Need some help getting first example to work - syntax err

[Stephen Johns]

I followed the install page and created the example file:

import web

urls = (
    '/', 'index'
)

class index:
    def GET(self):
        return "Hello, world!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = web.application(urls, globals())
    app.run()

When I run this, I get the following error.  Do I have


./ex.py: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./ex.py: line 3: `urls = ('

Using
> python --version
Python 2.6.6

[Neo Liu]

It works on my Ubuntu. How did you run this demo?

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[Dolf Andringa]

Did you literally paste your code? It works fine for me as well.

[vogan]

The error:

./ex.py: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./ex.py: line 3: `urls = ('

Is exactly what you get when you run a python script from the command line without an interpreter defined. It is treated as bash script by your operating system and therefore fails.

Try to run "python2 ex.py" or add "#!/usr/bin/python2" at the first line of your ex.py file.

Please note that python2 needs to be replaced by whatever your python2 binary is named.

- vogan