Python BSCW Server Error AttributeError: altzone

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Kieran O' Sullivan wrote:
> 
> I am running BSCW on SuSE Linux 5.3 with Apache 1.3.  The BSCW will
> allow logins and creation of users but when ever a user whether they
> are an Admin or just na ordinary user tries to create a folder the
> following happens.
> 
> Unanticipated Error (BSCW Release 990623-1553):
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "wrapped", line 16, in ?
>     cl_request.run('bs_cgi')
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 1351, in run
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 801, in handle_rq
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 891, in handle_it
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/op_get.py", line 65, in handle_GET
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_core.py", line 1166, in get
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_container.py", line 150, in get
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_container.py", line 274, in visible_entries
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_container.py", line 274, in <lambda>
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_core.py", line 98, in get_as_entry
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_core.py", line 946, in get_as_entry
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_artifact.py", line 261, in get_as_entry
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_artifact.py", line 91, in get_entry_params
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_interface.py", line 438, in event_msg
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/bs_utils.py", line 304, in relative_time
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 295, in localtime
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 914, in __getattr__
>   File "BSCW3/pyc15/cl_request.py", line 1200, in def_timezone
> 
> AttributeError: altzone

This is a (known ?) error in the 1.5.2 release of Python. It only
shows up on libc5 systems. Here is the patch:

--- /home/lemburg/orig/Python-1.5.2/Modules/timemodule.c        Mon Apr  5 23:54:14 1999
+++ Modules/timemodule.c        Mon Apr 26 21:03:02 1999
@@ -614,11 +614,11 @@ inittime()
        p = getenv("PYTHONY2K");
        ins(d, "accept2dyear", PyInt_FromLong((long) (!p || !*p)));
        /* Squirrel away the module's dictionary for the y2k check */
        Py_INCREF(d);
        moddict = d;
-#if defined(HAVE_TZNAME) && !defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+#if defined(HAVE_TZNAME) && !defined(__GLIBC__)
        tzset();
 #ifdef PYOS_OS2
        ins(d, "timezone", PyInt_FromLong((long)_timezone));
 #else /* !PYOS_OS2 */
        ins(d, "timezone", PyInt_FromLong((long)timezone));
@@ -632,11 +632,11 @@ inittime()
        ins(d, "altzone", PyInt_FromLong((long)timezone-3600));
 #endif /* PYOS_OS2 */
 #endif
        ins(d, "daylight", PyInt_FromLong((long)daylight));
        ins(d, "tzname", Py_BuildValue("(zz)", tzname[0], tzname[1]));
-#else /* !HAVE_TZNAME || __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
+#else /* !HAVE_TZNAME || __GLIBC__ */
 #ifdef HAVE_TM_ZONE
        {
 #define YEAR ((time_t)((365 * 24 + 6) * 3600))
                time_t t;
                struct tm *p;
@@ -681,11 +681,11 @@ inittime()
        ins(d, "altzone", PyInt_FromLong(timezone));
        ins(d, "daylight", PyInt_FromLong((long)0));
        ins(d, "tzname", Py_BuildValue("(zz)", "", ""));
 #endif /* macintosh */
 #endif /* HAVE_TM_ZONE */
-#endif /* !HAVE_TZNAME || __GNU_LIBRARY__ */
+#endif /* !HAVE_TZNAME || __GLIBC__ */
        if (PyErr_Occurred())
                Py_FatalError("Can't initialize time module");
 }
 
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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