Trouble running Spyce on Ubuntu 10.10

[hrfister]

I need help running spyce server pages on Ubuntu 10.10

I installed Spyce using mod_python on Centos just fine, but on Ubuntu, it is giving me an "invalid syntax" error on a pythong script.

I have the following packages (relevant to this post) installed:

• python 2.6.6
• apache2
• libapache2-mod-python

In the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, I have the following configuration embedded:

        <Directory /var/www>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
       <IfModule mod_python.c>
                AddHandler python-program .spy
                PythonHandler run_spyceModpy::spyceMain
                PythonPath "sys.path+[r'/usr/share/spyce']"
                PythonDebug On
           </IfModule>
        </Directory>

When I try to run a test file, I get the following error thanks to PythonDebug being turne On:

MOD_PYTHON ERROR

ProcessId: 2374
Interpreter: 'localhost.localdomain'

ServerName: 'localhost.localdomain'
DocumentRoot: '/var/www'

URI: '/spyce/docs/examples/hello.spy'
Location: None
Directory: '/var/www/'
Filename: '/var/www/spyce/docs/examples/hello.spy'
PathInfo: ''

Phase: 'PythonHandler'
Handler: 'run_spyceModpy::spyceMain'

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch
default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent)

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1229, in _process_target
result = _execute_target(config, req, object, arg)

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1128, in _execute_target
result = object(arg)

File "/usr/share/spyce/run_spyceModpy.py", line 19, in spyceMain
return spyceMainVersion(apacheRequest)

File "/usr/share/spyce/run_spyceModpy.py", line 36, in spyceMainVersion
import spyceModpy

File "/usr/share/spyce/spyceModpy.py", line 10, in <module>
import spyce, spyceException, spyceUtil

File "/usr/share/spyce/spyce.py", line 418

def _startModule(self, name, file=None, as=None, force=0):

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

in the file spyce.py, I am gettig a syntax error with one of the parameters of the _startModule function, 'as=None'. I don't understand why this is happening. On centos, it runs fine with no problems. I first thought that maybe I had an older version of Python on Ubuntu, but the Centos server is also running Python 2.6.6 as well.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

-hrfister

[hrfister]

I found a 'WORK AROUND'!

It appeared like no one had a clue as to what was going on and I felt a little glad I wasn't alone. After a little bit of googling, a couple of guys stated that 'as' is a keyword in certain versions of python. It appeared as to the pythong that mod_python used did not like the token 'as' used as either a variable or a parameter on a function. A couple of guys advised to rename 'as' to '_as' in all the files in the directory where spyce was installed. I didn't want to do this at first thinking it was going to be a 'SLOPPY' solution, but after hours and days of trying to figure this out, and for time purposes, I went ahead and modified the files that had toke 'as=' in them.

It appears to me like not to many people use Spyce Server Pages and there very few documentation out on the web. So I did what I had to do and if anyone runs into this same problem, below is what worked for me.

I went ahead and searched for all files in my spyce install directory that was using the token 'as=' such as as=xyz in a parameter in functions. I backed up each and everyone with the following multiple commands:

#cp docs/examples/formtag.spy docs/examples/formtag.spy_bak ; cp docs/examples/tag.spy docs/examples/tag.spy_bak ; cp docs/doc.spy docs/doc.spy_bak ; cp modules/taglib.py modules/taglib.py_bak ; cp spyceCompile.py spyceCompile.py_bak ; cp spyce.py spyce.py_bak


I then edited the following files...

spyceCompile.py
docs/examples/formtag.spy
docs/examples/tag.spy
docs/doc.spy
modules/taglib.py
spyce.py



...by searching and replacing all instances of ' a=' to ' _a='. It wasn't as easy since this changed strings with substrings of "as=". An example of this was the following string 'libas=libname' changed to 'lib _as=libname' and then in spyce.py, the variable 'as' was being used multiple times as follows:

sys.stderr.write(as+'.start\n')
:
self._modstarted.append((as, mod))
:
else: mod = self._codeenv[as]
:
for as, mod in self._modstarted:
:
sys.stderr.write(as+'.finish\n')
:
for as, mod in self._modstarteddefault:
:
sys.stderr.write(as+'.finish\n')

after a manual search and replace using CTRL-S for this using emacs, I replaced them:

sys.stderr.write(_as+'.start\n')
:
self._modstarted.append((_as, mod))
:
else: mod = self._codeenv[_as]
:
for _as, mod in self._modstarted:
:
sys.stderr.write(_as+'.finish\n')
:
for _as, mod in self._modstarteddefault:
:
sys.stderr.write(_as+'.finish\n')

I reset apache2
#/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

AND IT FINALLY WORKED!

I hope this helps out anyone who may have struggled with this like I did. Also, if anyone can suggest a "cleaner" solution, by all means, please let me know.

Thanks!