Aha. I fear I'll be accused of mumbling to myself, but I think I understand now that what you meant by your x.Y = Y example.
We also have a theory that it's adding model objects to sessions that causes our problem because model objects are created dynamically by their meta classes. Am I close? Could it still be not deleting the *.pyc files? Mae On Apr 5, 12:17 pm, "Mae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, that would be "a sporadic "TypeError: can't pickle function > objects" problem" :). Forgot to paste. > > On Apr 5, 12:08 pm, "Mae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow, what luck! I've been having a sporadic "" problem, and I've just > > resigned myself to spending today to try to debug it. Searched the > > group for exact error, found nothing, refreshed, and saw this post in > > top slot! Kismet. > > > Jeremy, I'm not sure I understood your last post well enough. Could > > you explain? I have code that goes like this: > > > file: cart_models.py > > class Cart(object): > > ... > > > file: views.py > > from myproject.cart_models import Cart > > cart = Cart() > > request.session['cart'] = cart > > ... > > > I also have several other examples where I instantiate a model object > > or another object and then add it to something that later gets added > > to the session. > > > Is what I'm doing "monkey patching"? What does "monkey patching" > > mean? How am I making it difficult for the pickling functions to > > figure out my "type name"? What should I do to fix it? > > > Is it possible that running svn update on my directories and > > restarting Apache without deleting all of the old compiled *.pyc files > > first is the "monkey patching" that screws up my server? > > > Thanks so much, > > Mae > > > On Apr 5, 11:50 am, "Jeremy Dunck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 4/5/07, paceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > > > > I wonder if apache prefork reloads modules (maybe psycopg2) that I am > > > > not aware of and that causes the pickling of the object not to work? > > > > This would also occur if you were monkey patching classes, I think. > > > > Do you have anything that does something like this: > > > > import x > > > > class Y(object): > > > pass > > > > x.Y = Y > > > > ? > > > > The basic issue is that pickling works by serializing a type*name* > > > plus some state for that object. If the type changes from the time > > > the object is created until the time the serialization is attempted, > > > pickle gives up. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
