RoboHTML 7.0 Snippet Problem

I have added a two Snippets to a project. After viewing the
Snippets in the viewer, they no longer show up as greyed out text.
Their space is a single empy line. And the Snippet pod shows no
Snippets. They are in the code and show up in the viewer, but not
in the topic window.
If I add additional Snippets, they will appear in the Snippet
pod until I close the project. Re-opening the project will again
show "no snippets".
It appears that the Snippet gathering process or some Snippet
control file is messed up. Any ideas?

Yes, I'm running RoboHTML locally.
I think this issue was caused by a RoboHTML hang-up/abend
while I was working with the Snippets. The samples work fine. And I
am unable to reproduce the problem.
The RoboHTML abends are now of concern. I had another one on
Monday, 12/3 while reconstructing the project with the "broken
snippets". That's my next forum post.
It appears that Snippets are handled internally a lot like
Links. That is, if I import a Topic with a Snippet, the Topic
retains a filename reference to the Snippet. Does it manifest as a
Broken Link? If the Snippet is not Imported, how is this flagged?
How can I delete the Snippet reference? It appears that Snippets
should only be manipulated from the Snippet Pod methods, and it is
not there.

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Andrew ~ Perhaps someone will suggest a solution to the HTML Snippet problem, but meanwhile, with this recent improvement to Posterous:
http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-unveils-pages
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http://blog.posterous.com/pages-20-add-links-to-your-sidebar

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hounddog wrote:
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I'm a new RH user so please forgive me if this is answered somewhere else (I did search for awhile first).
Windows XP Pro 2002 Service Pack 3
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Note: had the same as problem/related to this forum question.
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Edits to topics that do not      involve snippets are being saved
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<!doctype HTML public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN">
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<meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name=generator content="Adobe RoboHelp - www.adobe.com">
<meta name=generator-major-version content=0.1>
<meta name=generator-minor-version content=1>
<meta name=filetype content=RoboHelp>
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Strange problem with LabPython when calling datetime.strptime()

Here's my code.
Whenever this is run, I get the following error:
Error 1050 occurred at PYTHON Execute Script__ogtk.vi->Writer.vi:<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>, attribute of type 'NoneType' is not callable
The code works perfectly in python. Any ideas of how to get around this problem?
Attachments:
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Hello,
As noted by nyc, LabPython is not supported by National Instruments.
To help you, I give you a piece of advice :
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If you want to share the library "python.27.dll", I suggest you to try to reverse the first and the second VI (first, use Python New Session.VI and then use
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This link could help you:
http://labpython.sourceforge.net/palette.html
Best regards,
Guillaume D

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