a strange SyntaxError

CoolGenie CGenie at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 15:15:43 EST 2007


Hi!
I'm trying to write a small adesklet that will read newsfeeds. Here's
the code:

#
#####################################################################
# fparser.py
#
# P. Kaminski <cgenie at gmail.com>
# Time-stamp: <>
######################################################################
import feedparser
import adesklets
from os import getenv, spawnlp, P_NOWAIT
from os.path import join, dirname

class Config(adesklets.ConfigFile):
    cfg_default = { 'feedsrc' : 'http://slashdot.org/index.rss',
                    'numfeeds' : 5,
                    'numlines' : 4
                    }

    def __init__(self, id, filename):
        adesklets.ConfigFile.__init__(self, id, filename)

class Events(adesklets.Events_handler):
    def __init__(self, basedir):
        if len(basedir)==0:
            self.basedir='.'
        else:
            self.basedir=basedir
        adesklets.Events_handler.__init__(self)

    def __del__(self):
        adesklets.Events_handler.__del__(self)

    def ready(self):
        self.config = Config(adesklets.get_id(),
                             join(self.basedir, 'config.txt'))
        self.feed = self.config['feedsrc']
        self.numfeeds = self.config['numfeeds']
        self.numlines = self.config['numlines']

		self.w = 520
		self.h = 12*self.numfeeds*(self.numlines+1)
        adesklets.window_resize(self.w, self.h)
        adesklets.window_reset(adesklets.WINDOW_UNMANAGED)
        adesklets.window_set_transparency(True)
        adesklets.window_show()

    def quit(self):
        print 'Quitting...'

    def alarm(self):
        print 'Alarm. Next in 360 seconds.'
        self._display()
        return 360

    def _display(self):
        print "Getting feed..."
        y = 0
        x = 0
        d = feedparser.parse(self.feed)
        print d.channel.title
        print d.channel.description

		# clear the buffer
		buffer = adesklets.create_image(self.w, self.h)
		adesklets.context_set_image(buffer)
		adesklets.context_set_blend(False)
		adesklets.context_set_color(0,0,0,0)
		adesklets.image_fill_rectangle(0,0,self.w,self.h)
		adesklets.context_set_blend(True)

        adesklets.context_set_font(adesklets.load_font('Vera/7'))
        adesklets.context_set_color(255, 0, 0, 255)
        adesklets.text_draw(0, y, str(d.channel.title))
        y+=12
        l = len(d.entries)
        l = min(l, self.numfeeds)
        for i in range(l):
            ent=d.entries[i]
            adesklets.context_set_color(255, 255, 0, 255)
            adesklets.text_draw(0, y, str(ent.title))
            print ent.title
            y+=12
            adesklets.context_set_color(255, 255, 255, 255)
            for k in range(0, min(len(ent.summary)/100,
self.numlines)):
                print str(ent.summary)[k*100:(k+1)*100]
                adesklets.text_draw(0, y, str(ent.summary)[k*100:(k
+1)*100])
                y+=12
        adesklets.free_font(0)
		adesklets.free_image(buffer)

Events(dirname(__file__)).pause()

Unfortunately, I'm getting this bug for some time now and I just don't
know what's going on:

  File "./fparser.py", line 40
    self.w = 520
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Regards,
P.K.



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