[Zope] Simple problem (probably)...

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:11:55 -0800 (PST)


On 15 Feb 2001 Jason.Jones@awl.com wrote:

> I am new to Zope and attempting to use an external method as described
> in the zope book, unfortunately I keep getting the following error:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
> SyntaxError: (see above)
> 
> The extension is indeed named "Example.py" and the method is the example from the book:
> 
> def hello(name='world')
> 	return "Hello %s" % name
> 
> I'm using Zope 2.3 on Windows NT.
> 
> Any ideas?

You're missing a colon, and so is the book (I just fixed it in the
source).  It should be:

  def hello(name='world'):
      return "Hello %s" % name

-Michel