On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:57:33PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > I can't look at mailman right now, but some observations that might > help: > > - with python 2.1: > > >>> 'barstring'.foo() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: foo > > - with python 2.2 > > >>> "barstring".foo() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'foo' > > which is closer to the David's error message, *but* has 'str' instead > of 'string'. BTW: > > >>> type("dfsfsd") > <type 'str'> > > I don't know where this 'string' comes from.
Python 1.5.2 (#0, Jan 13 2002, 13:19:04) [GCC 2.95.4 20011223 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> ''.lower() Traceback (innermost last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'lower' -- - mdz