Sept. 14, 2000
2:48 a.m.
"DC" == David Champion <dgc@uchicago.edu> writes:
DC> I disagree, but now's not the time to debate that. It's not
DC> the issue I was raising, anyway. You said in the patch
DC> followup that "the problem stemmed from an error introduced in
DC> Defaults.py by the user." Not exactly; changes to Defaults.py
DC> illuminated what seemed already to be a problem.
DC> The bug I created caused a traceback report, but that
DC> traceback itself was faulty. *That* is what this patch tried
DC> to fix.
DC> I don't know whether that makes any difference, though.Sorry, my message didn't give enough detail.
If you edit mm_cfg.py instead of Default.py, any errors will of course, still cause a traceback. But the proper traceback will show up in the web page as opposed to getting hidden by the missing import of VERSION. That makes it much easier for you to spot the problem and fix it. In that case, the patch isn't necessary.
I still claim the site admin should never edit Defaults.py. Why do you disagree?
Cheers, -Barry