Issue running python program

cliffhanger · 02-09-2019, 05:49 PM

Hi

I'm running a python script called ALPS which installs packages. It has worked, but now spits this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alps", line 295, in <module>
initPackages()
File "/usr/bin/alps", line 156, in initPackages
packageMap[line.split(':')[0]].append(line.split(':')[1].strip())
KeyError: 'twm'

This is obviously linked to python, but can anyone point the way to solving this? Its last use was reinstalling twm.

thanks

Cliff

individual · 02-09-2019, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cliffhanger

Hi

I'm running a python script called ALPS which installs packages. It has worked, but now spits this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alps", line 295, in <module>
initPackages()
File "/usr/bin/alps", line 156, in initPackages
packageMap[line.split(':')[0]].append(line.split(':')[1].strip())
KeyError: 'twm'

This is obviously linked to python, but can anyone point the way to solving this? Its last use was reinstalling twm.

thanks

Cliff

It looks like you have another thread about this problem. Anyway, do you have a link to this program? It is hard to say what the problem is exactly without looking the full program. Obviously it doesn't contain "twm" in its dictionary (Python's version of a hash map). The question is, how does it load the package map?
EDIT: For other readers, here is the source code for alps (AryaLinux Packaging System).