[scribus-dev] 1.5.6svn and Python3

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/2/19 5:41 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> hi greg
> 
> for you information:
> 
> exceptions are for errors at runtime.
> 
> using print without parenthesis is a syntax error, so the error happens
> while python analyses the code to see what it has to do and does not
> even start running the code.
> 
> you can see the difference by running this two scripts outside of
> scribus:
> 
> this will fail without printing anything
> 
> 
> ```
> print("abc")
> print "abc"
> ```
> 
> and this will first print "abc" and then fail:
> 
> ```
> print("abc")
> import scribus
> ```
> 
> you can also see that by putting an "print 'abc'" or a "import scribus"
> inside of an if.
> the first will always trigger an error, the second one only if python
> sees that the if condition is true.
> 
> some of this is typical for python, some is valid for (almost) every
> programming language...

I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying. In the instances I noted, most were in if clauses testing for scribus import, and even though I was running the the script in Scribus, the script failed with a traceback message.

Greg