[Python-Dev] Problem reloading mx.DateTime in PyApache

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jonathan LaCour wrote:
> 
> Well, it appears that this version raises a different problem. Do I need
> to be running anything higher than python-1.5.2?  Possibly this has
> something to do with how I installed this pre-release.  I simply moved
> the old DateTime directory out of the site-packages directory, and
> then moved the mx, and DateTime directories from the zip that was
> provided into the site-packages directory, and restarted. Here is the
> traceback from the apache error log:
> 
> patientSearchResults.py failed for 192.168.168.130, reason: the script
> raised an unhandled exception. Script's traceback follows:
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/httpd/html/py-bin/patientSearchResults.py", line 3, in ?
>     import ODBC.Solid
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ODBC/__init__.py", line 21, in ?
>     import DateTime # mxDateTime package must be installed first !
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/DateTime/__init__.py", line 17,
> in ?
>     from mx.DateTime import *
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/__init__.py", line
> 20, in ?    from DateTime import *
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/DateTime.py", line 8,
> in ?
>     from mxDateTime import *
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/__init__.py",
> line 12, in ?
>     setnowapi(time.time)
> NameError: setnowapi

This API is new... could it be that you didn't recompile the
mxDateTime C extension inside the package ?

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> > Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > >
> > > skip wrote:
> > > > Don't know if this should concern us in preparation for 2.0b1 release, but
> > > > the following came across c.l.py this morning.
> > >
> > > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110601&group_id=5470
> > >
> > >     "The problem you describe is an artifact of the way mxDateTime
> > >     tries to reuse the time.time() API available through the
> > >     standard Python time module"
> > >
> >
> > Here is a pre-release version of mx.DateTime which should fix
> > the problem (the new release will use the top-level mx package
> > -- it does contain a backward compatibility hack though):
> >
> > http://starship.python.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime-1.4.0-prerelease.zip
> >
> > Please let me know if it fixes your problem... I don't use PyApache.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Marc-Andre Lemburg
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