On Tuesday 24 February 2009 17:20:04 Frank wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm rather new to mnemosyne, but I've encountered a big problem that's
> messing things up big time for me.
>
> The scenario is as follows: I have my mnemosyne data on a usb stick
> and am running mnemosyne 1.2 in linux with ~/.mnemosyne symlinked to
> the corresponding directory on the usb device.
>
> This works fine for my computer at home and at work that both use
> Debian Etch. However, I've recently tried it on my EeePC with Eeebuntu
> and that's where things got messy. I think the root of the problem is
> that Debian Etch sticks to python version 2.4, whereas on Eeebuntu I
> use python 2.5 and apparently there seems to be a difference in how
> cPickle works.
>
> The result of this is pretty rough: the .mem file written by a 2.4
> version is not loadable in the 2.5 version and vice versa.
>
> So I basically have two questions:
> - Can anyone confirm this is a problem of differing python versions?

That is indeed the problem.

> - Does anyone have a good solution or knows a better work-around (than
> making an XML export after each repetition and when switching python
> versions first create a new database and import that XML data)?

Upgrading Debian to 2.5 seems the easiest thing to do.

Peter


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Peter Bienstman
Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology 
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
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