Help with ASCII encryption

[ihatehippies]

So I made this script call auto ascii encrypter and it basically goes character by character through a script and converts it to ascii numbers. It makes a new a script using the ascii numbers. But I get an error no matter how simple the script is. 'invalid syntax.' Heres the code and thanks for the help.

import os
import sys
import glob
result = ""
for script_to_convert in glob.glob1(sys.path[0],'*.py*'):
    if str(sys.path[0])+'\\'+script_to_convert != sys.argv[0]:
        print 'converting', script_to_convert, '...'
        opened_script = open(script_to_convert, 'r')
        for eachline in opened_script:
            for eachletter in eachline:
                for eachchar in range(0, 256):
                    if chr(eachchar) == eachletter:
                        result = result+"chr("+str(eachchar)+")+"
        result = result[0:-1]
        opened_script.close()
        os.rename(sys.path[0]+'\\'+script_to_convert, 'c:\python25\custom scripts'+'\\'+script_to_convert)
        print 'moved', script_to_convert, 'to c:\python25\custom scripts'
        ascii_file = open('ascii_'+script_to_convert, 'w')
        ascii_file.write('eval('+result+')')
        ascii_file.close()
        print 'ascii_'+script_to_convert, 'has been created.'
        raw_input('conversion completed. Press enter to exit')
        sys.exit()
else:
    print 'No other files found.'

[sneekula]

Can you give us your whole error message?

[ihatehippies]

sure

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\custom scripts\auto ascii converter\ascii_test.py", line 1, in <module>
    eval(chr(112)+chr(114)+chr(105)+chr(110)+chr(116)+chr(32)+chr(39)+chr(73)+chr(32)+chr(104)+chr(97)+chr(116)+chr(101)+chr(32)+chr(72)+chr(105)+chr(112)+chr(112)+chr(105)+chr(101)+chr(115)+chr(33)+chr(39)+chr(10))
  File "<string>", line 1
    print 'I hate Hippies!'
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Gribouillis]

replace eval by print repr(...) so that we can see the string which was eval'ed

[ihatehippies]

it prints it fine when you add that.

"print 'I hate Hippies!'\n"

[ihatehippies]

just to clarify the auto ascii script runs to completion just fine. Its the output files that encounter errors

[Gribouillis]

The problem is that the argument to eval must be an expression, while "print 'I hate Hippies'\n" is a statement. You can exec statements :)