Error parsing yaml file: mapping values are not allowed here

google-app-engine
andandandand picture andandandand · Jun 10, 2012 · Viewed 178.5k times · Source

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

Dave W. Smith picture Dave W. Smith · Jun 10, 2012

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)

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