[Zope] Re: UnpickleableError: Cannot pickle <type 'thread.lock'>objects

[Dylan Jay]

"Dieter Maurer" <dieter at handshake.de> wrote in message 
news:17071.4574.893818.528219 at gargle.gargle.HOWL...
> Dylan Jay wrote at 2005-6-14 17:45 +1000:
>> ...
>>356, in _commit_objects
>>    jar.commit(o, self)
>>  File "C:\Program Files\Zope-2.7.5-final\lib\python\ZODB\Connection.py",
>>line 4
>>52, in commit
>>    dump(state)
>>UnpickleableError: Cannot pickle <type 'thread.lock'> objects
>
> I would catch the error and enter a debugger to analyse the "o" above.
>
> With "pdb" (the Python Debugger, part of Python),
> this could look like:
>
>     try: dump(state)
>     except: import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Good suggestion (I did try to get debugging working in WingIDE and Boa but 
your way worked best in the end).
Unfortunatly I'm still none the wiser.
I know which object it is and I've looked at its state (below). I've looked 
at the OOBTree and made sure it contains nothing that has a lock in it. I 
can look at sys.exc_info[1].args which is a lock object but what I really 
need to do is work out where this lock object is and why its entangled with 
my transaction. Any suggestions?

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