cos: "Integer Required"?!?!?!?

[Fredrik Lundh]

moonman wrote:

> print self.ACphi, type(self.ACphi) yields:
> 19412557 <type 'int'>
> 
> value = XPLMGetDataf(self.ACphi); print value  type(value ) yields:
> -0.674469709396 <type 'float'>
> 
> print math.radians(XPLMGetDataf(self.ACphi)),
> type(math.radians(XPLMGetDataf(self.ACphi))) yields:
> 
> TypeError
> :
> an integer is required
> 
> Am I totally missing something about 'math'. Does it really expect an
> int?

nope.

 >>> import math
 >>> math.radians(-0.6744)
-0.011770500475449759
 >>> math.cos(-0.1177)
0.99308134771019019

when you end up with exceptions that make no sense at all, and C 
extensions are involved, the problem is quite often that some code in 
the extension forgets to check for errors, or forgets to reset the 
exception status when it has handled an error.

do you get any further if you do:

     value = XPLMGetDataf(self.ACphi)
     hasattr(value, "foo") # reset the exception status
     print math.radians(value)

?

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