Program runs in all directories, except one..

[Theo v. Werkhoven]

The carbonbased lifeform John Machin inspired comp.lang.python with:
> On Apr 28, 9:50 pm, "Theo v. Werkhoven" <t... at van-
> werkhoven.nl.invalid> wrote:
>> Goodday,
>>
>>             strg = array("B",octarray).tostring()
>
> The above statement appears to be where the error manifests itself.
> Possibilities: (1) array is bound to a list (2) the result of
> array("B", octarray) has an attribute tostring which is bound to a
> list. Option (1) seems less implausible. I'd be replacing that line
> by:
>
> print "octet %r, shift %r, array %r" % (octet, shift, array)
> array_b = array("B", octarray)
> print "array_b %r" % array_b
> print "array_b.tostring %r" % array_b.tostring
> strg = array_b.tostring()
>
> You haven't shown us all of your code -- is array mentioned elsewhere?
> What other imports are you doing? Do you have a file called array.py
> in the offending directory? [I believe that this wouldn't matter,
> because builtin modules like array can't be overridden by a file-based
> module of the same name, but I could be wrong]

Bingo!
#v+
theo:/home/theo/Devel/Python $ ls array*  
array.py  array.pyc

theo:/home/theo/Devel/Python $ cat array.py
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, os

array = [14, 8765, 756, 5345, 98, 5634654, 234123, 9087, 58, 297, 7865]
num = 0

while 1:
        try:
                print num
                num = num + array.pop()
        except:
                 break
#v-
And that code produces the numbers I was seeing..

> What platform and what version of Python?

$ python --version
Python 2.5

$ uname -srv
Linux 2.6.18.8-0.1-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007
$ uname -mip
i686 athlon i386

> HTH,
> John

Thank you very much John. Nice catch.

Theo
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