[Zope] please interpret

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:29:45 -0600


On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:03:08 -0500 Jeffrey P Shell wrote:

> >From: julian@zereau.net
> >
> > "TypeError: read-only buffer, class"
> >
> > I keep getting this error, please can someone explain what typically
> > causes it?
> 
> This is a buglet in ExternalMethod where an exception has been raised and
> caught by ExternalMethod, and EM is looking at the values of the traceback
> for some special conditions.  It's trying to do a string.lower() call on
> one of the values that in Python1.4 was always a string, but in Python1.5.x
> is an instance (in Python 1.5, standard exceptions became classes).  This
> has been fixed and will be in the next release.

Could you post the patch, please?  This error message hits me about five ways
from Sunday.

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