[Zope] please interpret

[Anthony Baxter]

The following patch should do the magic thing:

RCS file: ExternalMethod.py,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff ExternalMethod.py.dist ExternalMethod.py
--- ExternalMethod.py.dist
+++ ExternalMethod.py
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
                 error_type=sys.exc_type
                 error_value=sys.exc_value
                 tb=sys.exc_traceback
-                if lower(error_type) in ('redirect',):
+                if lower(str(error_type)) in ('redirect',):
                     raise error_type, error_value, tb
                 if (type(error_value) is type('') and
                     regex.search('[a-zA-Z]>', error_value) > 0):

It's not the way it's fixed in the new external method code, but it 
works for me, and should be enough to keep you going...

Anthony.

>>> Tres Seaver wrote
> 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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