[Zope-dev] Re: product creation wierdness in 2.1.6

[Sam Gendler]

Oops.  It would appear that a typo in my registerBaseClass call caused
the product to not appear, once all of the syntax errors were removed. 
Please ignore this message.

Sam Gendler wrote:
> 
> I have been plagued by a very strange bug tonight.  I am trying to
> create a base class for a zClass, and I had an typo on a line of the
> code, which caused an import to fail.  No matter how hard I tried, I
> could not get get Zope to notice that the line had changed, despite many
> restarts, removals of .pyc files, etc.  The exception would still get
> thrown, and the line of source quoted, always had source that no longer
> exited in the .py file.
> 
> Finally, I thought that perhaps I should delete the product altogether,
> and then restart zope.  Now the product does not show up at all.  Ever.
> No matter what I do (including undo of the delete).
> 
> Finally, I moved the source code out of zope's home directory, and blew
> zope away, and reinstalled from scratch from source.  When I move my
> code back into lib/python/Products, it still fails to appear in teh
> product list, even as a broken product.  I have looked at the source,
> and it does not look as though it has been modified, and this is an
> entirely new Data.fs file, so what could possibly be going on.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone?
> 
> This is not my first product (zClass or otherwise) and I have never seen
> this problem bfore.  Zope is version 2.1.6
> 
> Please help.
> 
> --sam