[Pythonmac-SIG] Build Application/Applet

[Jack Jansen]

> >> Hi-
> >>     I wrote a little script to parse email digests into a tab delimited
> >> format.  If I save the script as an applet from the IDE everything is fine.
> >> but if i use either the Build Application or Build Applet tools, I get a
> >> error saying there's a syntax error in my script (this happens when the tool
> >> is writing __main__).  any ideas on where to look for the problem?
> 
> I figured out what the problem was.  One of the lines in my script had a tab
> after the text but before the linefeed.  Once I removed that tab, everything
> built fine.  Should this really affect building the application?

No, it definitely shouldn't. I've tried to reproduce the problem, but however 
many tabs I put after lines BuildApplet doesn't seem to care, so could you 
send me your sourcefile so I can have a look? Please send it binhexed, not 
straight ascii, as in this case we want to file to come across verbatim.
--
Jack Jansen             | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
www.oratrix.nl/~jack    | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm