Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>
>The problem was an obscure typo in mm_cfg.py. Missing single quotes,
>basically. It's "obscure" because it wasn't very obvious... and I
>looked over everything with a fine-toothed comb, including our proxy and
>httpd setup!
>
>It seems to me that Mailman could probably provide better debugging
>output in this scenario. I don't know Python, but at the point where
>the mm_cfg.py file is parsed, any syntactical errors could be reported
>then. ?
The real issue here seems to be that the import from mm_cfg done in the
driver script is inadequately protected. The driver script
print_traceback definition contains
try:
from Mailman.mm_cfg import VERSION
except ImportError:
VERSION = '<undetermined>'
This is fine if there is an ImportError exception, but since mm_cfg.py
is edited by users, it is possible (likely) that there will be a
SyntaxError error exception here, and something more meaningful than
the "Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even
generate a useful traceback for you." message could be reported.
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