errormessages in script editor sometimes misleading

[matteoluigi]

Hi,

 

somehow the error messages in the script editor are a bit misleading. Sometimes it happens to me, that the mistake I made in my code are not in the line the error has been found by the ...compiler?... but in the line before.

 

path = (vs.Concat('/Users/matteoneustadt/Desktop/HBK2/',current_date)
ok = vs.IFC_ExportNoUI(path)

for example, there's missing a bracket in the "path" command.

However I get told, that the error is in the line of the "Ifc_ExportNoUI..." line.

 

Maybe there's a logical reason, however not a user friendly reason ;-).

[PatW]

You are right from a user view it makes more sense when the error appears for the first line. But in Python a statement can go to the next line when it is within brackets.

So the python engine realizes that something is wrong when it suddenly sees a declaration in the next line.

 

This is valid for example:

 

print ( "a"
        + "b")

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by PatW

[Pat Stanford]

After you do it enough you just learn which messages tend to be pointing to something higher up in the code. Happens in all the languages I am familiar with.