Error accessing app edit

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Maurice Waka

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Mar 17, 2019, 11:01:07 AM3/17/19
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When clicking on the edit button for my app, I get this error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 219, in restricted
    exec(ccode, environment)
  File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py", line 2012, in <module>
  File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line 421, in <lambda>
    self._caller = lambda f: f()
  File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py", line 1130, in design
    items = find_exposed_functions(data)
  File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/compileapp.py", line 520, in find_exposed_functions
    parsed = ast.parse(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ast.py", line 35, in parse
    return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)
  File "<unknown>", line 490
    _onclick="jQuery('#name').val('%s')" % k,
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is after upgrading to the new web2py 2.18.4

Regards

Massimo Di Pierro

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Mar 17, 2019, 10:49:17 PM3/17/19
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This says you are using python 3. Is your app build for python 3 or python 2?

Lovedie JC

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Mar 17, 2019, 11:55:59 PM3/17/19
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Python 3.
I moved to python 3
Regards 

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Massimo Di Pierro

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Mar 18, 2019, 1:35:41 AM3/18/19
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can you provide a minimal controller default.py so we can reproduce and fix it?
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Leonel Câmara

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Mar 18, 2019, 11:08:19 AM3/18/19
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This was due to changes I made to the way web2py discovers exposed functions in a controller file. It uses the python parser so it has a problem with syntax errors. I made a pull request that teaches the admin to deal with them:

Maurice Waka

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Mar 19, 2019, 3:22:42 PM3/19/19
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Thanks
I'll follow up 

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, 18:08 Leonel Câmara <leonel...@gmail.com> wrote:
This was due to changes I made to the way web2py discovers exposed functions in a controller file. It uses the python parser so it has a problem with syntax errors. I made a pull request that teaches the admin to deal with them:

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