Sorry about not including any code.

I'm using this gist that has worked with another script for several years. In that script, I upload a plist file to dropbox. I use it a couple times a week and it works without a hitch.

But this new script, that downloads a text file, isn't working at all and gives me the errors mentioned in the first post. And, weirdly, the comments on that gist indicate the same errors for those users. Yet, this code has worked for me with my other script.

Here is my code that calls that gist dropbox login code:

import dropboxloginv2 as dropboxlogin
import console
from dropbox import rest

dropboxlogin.app_key = '...'  #with my app_key
dropboxlogin.app_secret = '...'   #with my app_secret
DBX = dropboxlogin.get_client()

AUTOTAG_PATH = '/github/scripts/python/autotag_hints.txt'

def get_hints():
   try:
       md, res = DBX.files_download(AUTOTAG_PATH)
   except rest.ErrorResponse as e:
       console.alert('Error opening hints file', message='{}\n'.format(e))
       return None
   data = res.content
   for line in data:
       (ptn, tags) = line.split(' :: ')
       hints[ptn] = tags.split(' ')
   return hints

def main():
   autotag_hints = get_hints()
   print(autotag_hints)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

I tried moving the line DBX = dropboxlogin.get_client() inside the try block of get_hints() and got a different error: Error opening hints file [401] 'Invalid signature.'

I've been away from using Pythonista for a while but now have need to write a script that reads the contents of a text file in my Dropbox. I'm having a heck of a time getting this to work.

I've set up my app in the Dropbox settings, I've got my key and secret, I get through the authorization up until the point where I have to enter a code. I pasted the given code into the console but I get back Error: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/token and object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

Can anyone explain to me how to get this working?

Ah, I do see here than "inline" footnotes are also allowed by MultiMarkdown. Mea culpa.

"a rather cumbersome format"

According to the MMD syntax guide, that's the official format. An identifier goes inline in your text and the actual text of the note goes at the end.

Yet another reason why I'd like to get lxml included in the next release of Pythonista!

I'll second lxml, since without that module it's rather difficult (or it has been in my admittedly somewhat limited experience) to get python-docx and python-xlsx to work and those would be useful to have in Pythonista.

That did the trick. Thanks!

Oops, sorry, meant to include that info but forgot.

This happens on my iPhone 5S and my iPad Air 2, both running iOS 9.2.

Playing around with the new version of Pythonista, I tried out the ObjC example script Music Stats.py. But when I run that script, I get an error:

Value Error: no Objective-C class named 'MPMediaQuery' found

OK, definitely never noticed that. It's a little awkward that it requires you to make a second action to jump to that spot rather than automatically taking you there like most other forum software I've ever used, but I suppose it'll work.

Is there a way to link to the first new post in a topic based on the last time you visited the forums? This drove me nuts about the old forum too.

You can click on the topic title to start at the first post, or on the link to the right to jump to the last post but doing that means you'll have to scroll up to see if there were posts made between your last visit and the last post in the thread. Frustrating.