Question

I realize that there are much more elegant ways to do this, and I will get there, but this is just hacking around trying to make it all work first. I’ve gotten this error:

SyntaxError at /accounts/profile/foobar/
keyword can’t be an expression (views.py, line 104)

and here is the corresponding line. Note: keyword is a string that I pass in the URL and I use it to look up the user.

user = User.objects.get(username=keyword)
up = UserProfile(user=user.id,
                 fullname=result['fullname'],
                 email=result['email'],
                 phone=result['phone'],
                 title=result['title'],
                 department=result['department'],
                 office=result['office'])

Am I not mapping the UserProfile object to the User object correctly? What’s the proper way to add in a foreign key — simply pass the object itself? Insight and wisdom appreciated.

Answer 1

Easily duplicated:

>>> def foo(**kwargs):
...   return None
... 
>>> foo(a.b=1)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

The error message is a bit cryptic – where’s the keyword? I suspect its to do with ‘.’ being syntax for getattr.