On Apr 28, 9:50 pm, "Theo v. Werkhoven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] werkhoven.nl.invalid> wrote: > Goodday, > > Something strange going on here. > A piece of code I wrote bombs out in one of de directories under $HOME, > but not in others. [snip] > def shiftout(numoctets): > os.system('clear') > ser = serial.Serial(0) > from array import array > octarray = [0] > for i in range(0,numoctets-1): > octarray.append(0) > > for octet in range(numoctets,0,-1): > octarray[octet-1]=1 > for shift in range(0,8): > strg = array("B",octarray).tostring()
The above statement appears to be where the error manifests itself. Possibilities: (1) array is bound to a list (2) the result of array("B", octarray) has an attribute tostring which is bound to a list. Option (1) seems less implausible. I'd be replacing that line by: print "octet %r, shift %r, array %r" % (octet, shift, array) array_b = array("B", octarray) print "array_b %r" % array_b print "array_b.tostring %r" % array_b.tostring strg = array_b.tostring() You haven't shown us all of your code -- is array mentioned elsewhere? What other imports are you doing? Do you have a file called array.py in the offending directory? [I believe that this wouldn't matter, because builtin modules like array can't be overridden by a file-based module of the same name, but I could be wrong] What platform and what version of Python? HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list