egenix-mx-package error : copy_reg is not intended for use with classes

[Ingo Blank]

Hi,

I assume that your primary goal is a working PostgreSQL interface for
Python.
If you are not fixed to pgdb for any reason, you might want to try psycopg
instead.
It compiles out of the box, though requiring mxDateTime as well, and works
without any problems for me.
It seems to be pretty stable and fast, at least I had no problems yet.

HTH

--Ingo

ibl at nexgo dot de


"Thomas Weholt" <thomas at weholt.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:BVFJ7.3031$B87.49276 at news1.oke.nextra.no...
> Well, it's probably the pgdb module that comes with PostgreSQL 7.1.3 I've
> just installed but ....
>
> Anyway :
>
> I've installed PostgreSQL 7.1.3 with python enabled. Tried to use pgdb.py
> but it needed mxDateTime, so I installed
> http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/egenix-mx-base-2.0.2.tar.gz
>
> Now I get the following error :
>
> Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 30 2001, 17:36:05)
> [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.61mdk)] on linux-i386
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import pgdb
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/pgdb.py", line 64, in ?
>     try: from mx import DateTime
>   File "mx/DateTime/__init__.py", line 40, in ?
>     class modinit:
>   File "mx/DateTime/__init__.py", line 50, in modinit
>     _DT)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/copy_reg.py", line 16, in pickle
>     raise TypeError("copy_reg is not intended for use with classes")
> TypeError: copy_reg is not intended for use with classes
> >>>
>
> This is on a Mandrake 8.1-box.
>
> Any clues ??
>
> Thomas
>
>