Techincal question

[chookapp]

Hey,

I'm trying to contribute some code to this project.

I'm trying to run the project from the master branch, but I keep getting an error... Should the master branch work? Do you have some simple instructions on how to run it?

P.S. Is the best way to communicate with you?

Thanks...

[bneijt]

Hi, github is a great way to communicate with me. I'm not quick to respond, but other people also have a chance to respond if they run into the same issue.

Could you post the command you are trying to run and what the result is?

[chookapp]

That response was rather quick :-)

Anyway, this is what I tried... I might be missing something obvious here...

PYTHONPATH=autotrash python3 -m autotrash:

/usr/bin/python3: No module named autotrash.__main__; 'autotrash' is a package and cannot be directly executed

PYTHONPATH=autotrash python2.7 -m autotrash:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 163, in _run_module_as_main
    mod_name, _Error)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 111, in _get_module_details
    __import__(mod_name)  # Do not catch exceptions initializing package
  File "autotrash/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .app import *
  File "autotrash/app.py", line 61
    def real_file_name(trash_name: str) -> str:
                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

python3 init.py:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/requirements.py", line 90, in __init__
    req = REQUIREMENT.parseString(requirement_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 1617, in parseString
    raise exc
...  
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 2670, in parseImpl
    raise ParseException(instring, loc, self.errmsg, self)
pkg_resources._vendor.pyparsing.ParseException: Expected W:(abcd...) (at char 0), (line:1, col:1)

python2.7 init.py:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    __version__ = get_distribution(__name__).version
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 470, in get_distribution
    dist = Requirement.parse(dist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2988, in parse
    req, = parse_requirements(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2935, in parse_requirements
    yield Requirement(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2944, in __init__
    raise RequirementParseError(str(e))
pkg_resources.RequirementParseError: Invalid requirement, parse error at "'__main__'"

[bneijt]

I've added some documentation on running it from git in a new "Development" section of the readme, let me know if that helps. Closing this for now.

[chookapp]

Thanks!