On Samstag, 21. November 2009, Seth Hill wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to the mailing list and Eric, so please bear with me. > > I have discovered a possible bug in the DebugClientBase.py which > comes with Eric4 4.3.9 (r3513) on Windows XP. I've put a workaround > in place for the issue (see below). My question is not so much about > the bug (if it is a bug), but rather, where's the appropriate place > to submit bug reports?
The ideal way to report bugs is via the included reporting function (s. Help menu). However, it is fine to report them here as well. > If the right place is here, then continue > reading (and my apologies if not!). > > > I'm working with a django 1.1 project, trying to get debugging going. > I'm working with a form in a view function. I set a breakpoint in the > view function, and get a TypeError in DebugClientBase.py:1608. It > looks like the debugger is going through the locals and calling > unicode() on all of them. Some of the locals in this case don't > support the unicode method. When the debugger calls the unicode() > method, it triggers an exception inside the running wsgi server. I > get an error message on the web page, and the debug session stops > working. > > My code looks like: > > forms.py: > class NewCustomerForm(forms.Form): > name = forms.CharField() > # etc > > views.py: > def create_customer(request): > if request.method == "POST": # breakpoint here > form = NewCustomerForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): # exception occurs when stepping > to here > > > The line in DebugClientBase.py looks like: > valtypestr = unicode(type(value))[1:-1] I don't understand, why type(value) does not support the unicode() method. > > I've "fixed" the error by wrapping the line in a try: > > try: > valtypestr = unicode(type(value))[1:-1] > except TypeError: > valtypestr = repr(type(value))[1:-1] > > You can duplicate the TypeError with something like: > >>> class Foo: > > ... def __unicode__(self): > ... return u'Foo instance' > ... > > >>> unicode(Foo) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: unbound method __unicode__() must be called with Foo > instance as first argument (got nothing instead) > However, unicode(type(Foo)) works fine, and that is what the "faulty" line does. Could you please give another example or stripped down script that causes your problem. > > Regards, > > Seth Hill > > _______________________________________________ > Eric mailing list > Eric@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric > Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach det...@die-offenbachs.de _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list Eric@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric