Cheese Shop Registration error

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Mon Sep 18 18:25:49 EDT 2006


Richard Jones wrote:
> alefnula at gmail.com wrote:
> > The Key ID that the kgpg shows. I tried to paste the key returned by
> > the quiery on the keyserver. but it also doesn't work. I tried
> > everything that has any connection with the key, but everything fails.
> >
> > By the way the key is: 6A61E3AD
>
> Here is the code that could generate that error message:
>
>                 if len(gpgid) != 8:
>                     raise FormError, 'GPG key ID is invalid'
>                 try:
>                     int(gpgid)

| >>> int("6A61E3AD")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 6A61E3AD
| >>> int("6A61E3AD", 16)
1784800173

What am I missing?

>                 except ValueError:
>                     raise FormError, 'GPG key ID is invalid'
>
> So I suspect there might have been some cut-n-paste error. Check that you've
> not pasted in any whitespace that could confuse the first test.
> 

Cheers,
John




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