6.5.4 zero length field name in format

[Luis P. Mendes]

Thank you Tomasz for your complete answer. It's working now.

Luis


2012/6/2 Tomasz Żok <tomasz.zok at gmail.com>:
> Hi Luis,
>
> I searched for this in my installation (6.5.3.1) and I can see the following
> entries:
>
> folder/Base.py:     self.ui.info("[DRYRUN] Copy {} messages from {}[{}] to {}".format(
> ui/UIBase.py:       self.info("{}Creating folder {}[{}]".format(
> ui/UIBase.py:       self.info("{}Deleting {} messages ({}) in {}".format(
> ui/UIBase.py:       self.info("[DRYRUN] {}".format(msg))
>
>
> I assume similar lines are present in 6.5.4... And this syntax is not supported
> by Python 2.6.6.
>
> To fix your error, you should do one of these:
> - upgrade to Python 2.7
> - modify these files on your own: number the curly braces
>
> If you decide on the second option, note that you should look for any
> occurrence of {}, but inside of string (i.e. embedded in quotes "..." or
> apostrophes '...'), like the ones listed aboce. A simple grep will give you
> also lines like this:
>
>    retval = {}
>
> But these are fine and should not be changes. Here the braces {} are not inside
> of string.
>
> Cheers,
> Tomek
>
>
>> Hi Tomaz,
>>
>> You got me lost in this one!
>>
>> Where should I look for these '{}/{}'?
>> In /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/offlineimap/
>> or
>> elsewhere?
>>
>> I did a grep there and could find some '{}', but none that resembles {}/{}.
>>
>>
>> Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/6/2 Tomasz Żok <tomasz.zok at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi Luis,
>> >
>> > if you get this error, probably you have entries like this in your format
>> > string: {}
>> >
>> > In your Python version, it is required that these curly braces are numbered
>> > (starting from zero). So for example:
>> > - INCORRECT:    '{}/{}'
>> > - CORRECT:      '{0}/{1}'
>> >
>> > Hope this helps, cheers,
>> > Tomek
>> >
>> >
>> > On 06/02/12 at 06:55pm, Luis P. Mendes wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I've already read about this in the archive, but didn't understand
>> >> whether there is a patch, where is it or if it is already contemplated
>> >> in 6.5.4.
>> >>
>> >> Here's the output:
>> >>
>> >> *** Processing account luislupe
>> >> Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
>> >> ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'luislupe'
>> >>   zero length field name in format
>> >> *** Finished account 'luislupe' in 0:01
>> >> ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
>> >> ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'luislupe'
>> >>   zero length field name in format
>> >>
>> >> $ python -V
>> >> Python 2.6.6
>> >>
>> >> $ offlineimap --version
>> >> 6.5.4
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> What do I need to do to solve this issue?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> TIA,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Luis
>> >>
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