Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-26 Thread rusi
On Apr 26, 11:25 am, rusi wrote: > To present these kind of errors, Erlang has a concept of sticky > modules -- those that come from the system… ??present?? should have been 'prevent' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-25 Thread rusi
On Apr 26, 11:04 am, Tim Roberts wrote: > Forafo San wrote: > > >OK, lesson learned: Take care not to have module names that conflict with > >python's built ins. Sorry for being so obtuse. > > You don't have to apologize.  We've all been bitten by this at least once. Yes… When it comes to keywo

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-25 Thread Tim Roberts
Forafo San wrote: > >OK, lesson learned: Take care not to have module names that conflict with >python's built ins. Sorry for being so obtuse. You don't have to apologize. We've all been bitten by this at least once. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-24 Thread Forafo San
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:08:27 PM UTC-4, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-04-24, Forafo San wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following > > session in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError: > > > > > > ---

Weird python behavior

2013-04-24 Thread Forafo San
Hello All, I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following session in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError: -- [ppvora@snowfall ~/xbrl]$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 22 2013, 18:42:18) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-24 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-04-24, Forafo San wrote: > Hello All, > I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following session > in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError: > > -- > [ppvora@snowfall ~/xbrl]$ python > Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 22