[solved] Problems with complex experiment

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• Edwin

  May 2014 edited May 2014

  Although I haven't looked at your script, I can tell you where the error is likely to come from: a missing bracket somewhere before line 125. Even though it only crashes here, it probably does so because up to that point, the syntax has been interpreted as correct. An example:

  a = 1
  test = (1,2 # <- this is where the actual error is: a missing bracket!
  
  if a == 1: # <- this is where Python thinks the error is, because the code is syntactically correct up to the colon
      print a
  

  Will produce an error like the following, which is exactly the same as yours:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "example.py", line 4
      if a == 1:
               ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  

  On your second problem: pyzmq is not bundled together with the standalone version of OpenSesame, but you could add it to the portable version.

  Good luck!
• lacraig2

  May 2014 edited May 2014

  Hi Edwin,

  I have looked over the code and your suggestion helped me the initial problem. I appreciate your help on that. I was, however wondering if there was an easier way to import information to be used by the experiment. I was wondering if the input function or raw_input would work. I have tried this by importing sys. I keep getting a EOFError. I am not sure how to work on this further. Do I need the portable version and to import a package or something? To be clear I would like to be able to use the debug window to input information to be used in the experiment. Is there a good way to do this?

  I appreciate the help so far. Thank you.
• Edwin

  May 2014 edited 3:06PM

  Good to hear you've found the bug in your code.

  There are tons of ways to import stuff into your experiment. The best solution depends on what kind of information you need to add in there. input and raw_input might not prove to be optimal, as OpenSesame takes over the full screen before you could actually type stuff. You could, however, use a (form_)text_input item, or load information from a textfile. Communication between two computers might be easiest through the socket module.

  If you give us a bit more information on what you plan to do, we could give you some pointers.

  Good luck!
• lacraig2

  June 2014 edited 3:06PM

  This is old and is closed. Thank you
• Edwin

  June 2014 edited 3:06PM

  Thanks for the heads-up, we'll mark this as solved!