Question

I want to upload an app to Google App Engine:

I get this

Error parsing yaml file:
mapping values are not allowed here
  in "/home/antonio/Desktop/ATI/climate-change/app.yaml", line 2, column 8 

When running

./appcfg.py update /home/antonio/Desktop/ATI/climate-change

with this app.yaml file:

application:climate-change
version: 1
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: helloworld.app

line 2, column 8 corresponds to the version line. What is wrong here? Btw, I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 here.

Answer 1

Change

application:climate-change

to

application: climate-change

The space after the colon is mandatory in yaml if you want a key-value pair. (See http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2759963)