[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.7 and objects turning into None

[Casey Duncan]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:47:47 +1100
Richard Jones <richardjones at optushome.com.au> wrote:

> On Friday 20 February 2004 05:52, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > We have a report for Zope 2.7 about an object magically turning
> > into "None" (1 or 2 weeks ago).
> 
> Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but I will note that I've
> seen (repeatably) in my test Zope environment this behaviour.
> 
> This is probably unrelated though...
> 
> For me, the situation comes about when I am loading up my fresh (ie.
> clean ZODB) test Zope with a thousand users. While the load script is
> running (it runs on the command-line and goes TTW using urllib to
> register the users) if I access a page which summarises all users, I
> *sometimes* get None for some of the users. The page uses a Catalog to
> find basic user info, and sometimes uses getObject() to find the real
> user object. The getObject() appears to return None sometimes.

This is a guess, but perhaps the Catalog is masking some other low-level
error and returning None instead? I'll see if that seems possible from
the code.

-Casey