Pythonpath on Mac OSX

Question

I read through Add to python path mac os x and I figured doing that is a good idea, but still IDLE gives me a syntax error for a simple call of open(filename, mode), so I looked a little bit further and I found that I am able to do as stated in http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1067/_index.html and set up an environment.plist in a .MacOSX folder, so I did that in my home dir and still no changes ... I am now lost :-)

Thats what I added as my python-path in .bash_profile and the same path in my environment.plist (without the :$PYTHONPATH):

PYTHONPATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7:$PYTHONPATH"
export PYTHONPATH

EDIT: Thats where I get the syntax-Error... works fine in the interpreter

import xml.etree.ElementTree as et 
import json
app = Bottle()
@app.route('/proPass', method ='POST')
#here happens here, need it further down in the code... which is not really relevant 
f = open('/Users/mohi/Desktop/proPass_project/server_service/systems.xml', 'rw')
def getData():
 timestamp = request.POST.get('timestamp', '').strip()
 data = request.POST.get('data', '').strip()
 if timestamp:
 processData(data, timestamp)
run()

The error:

 File "proPass_script.py", line 9
 f = open('/Users/mohi/Desktop/proPass_project/server_service/systems.xml', 'rw')
 ^
 SyntaxError: invalid syntax

• agf: Put the exact and full traceback and error in between <pre> and </pre> so we can see exactly what might be the problem. Also, add a few lines of context -- often the error is on one of the lines before where it detects the error.

Answer 1

PYTHONPATH doesn't effect whether or not you get a SyntaxError -- only an ImportError. So, if you're getting a SyntaxError, you've got another problem with your code. Please post the code and we'll point it out.

Edit: Your error is on this line:

@app.route('/proPass', method ='POST')

The @ designates a decorator, which is only valid on the line immediately before a function definition (def), a class definition (class), or another decorator.

It shows the error on the first character of the open line because it's expecting a function or class definition there.

See the docs for function definitions for more info on decorators.

• markus: k, didn't know that, was looking a bit around the net and I found people with similar problems and they had to set a pythonpath
• Shawn Chin: This is more a comment than an answer.
• markus: omg ... Thank you, will keep that in mind ...I have to read the howto more precisely