Embedded Python and MySQLdb (was Re: PyApache and MySQLdb (was Re: anyone get one of the python apache modules to work with 2.1?))

[Brandon Long]

On 08/29/01 Skip Montanaro uttered the following other thing:
> 
>     >> On the second request, the import of the site.py module fails (during
>     >> import __builtin__) with:
>     >> 'import site' failed; traceback:
>     >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >> File "/neo/opt/encap/python-2.1-nothread/lib/python2.1/site.py", line 60, in ?    
>     >> import sys, os
>     >> File "/neo/opt/encap/python-2.1-nothread/lib/python2.1/os.py", line 54, in ?
>     >> __all__.extend(_get_exports_list(posix))
>     >> File "/neo/opt/encap/python-2.1-nothread/lib/python2.1/os.py", line 35, in _get_exports_list
>     >> return list(module.__all__)
>     >> AttributeError: 'posix' module has no attribute '__all__'
> 
> Sounds like something's fishy in your os module.  The current 2.1.1 code for
> _get_exports_list is
> 
>     def _get_exports_list(module):
>         try:
>             return list(module.__all__)
>         except AttributeError:
>             return [n for n in dir(module) if n[0] != '_']
> 
> so it should be catching the AttributeError (the posix module is not
> supposed to have an attribute named '__all__').  What does _get_exports_list
> look like?  Where are you picking up the os module?  Try:
> 
>     import imp
>     imp.find_module("os")

No, the module is unmodified and does contain the AttributeError
clause... but for some reason, it doesn't match the AttributeError
exception that is thrown.  If I replace it with just except: to catch
all exceptions, it passes until further down where something else in
os.py expects an exception.

Brandon
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