Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Roberts
Forafo San ppv.g...@gmail.com 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.

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-26 Thread rusi
On Apr 26, 11:04 am, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Forafo San ppv.g...@gmail.com 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.

Re: Weird python behavior

2013-04-26 Thread rusi
On Apr 26, 11:25 am, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com 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

2013-04-24 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-04-24, Forafo San ppv.g...@gmail.com 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

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

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 ppv.g...@gmail.com 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: