Doesn't know what it wants

[rzed]

Tim Rau <bladedpenguin at gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Jan 26, 1:41 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 4:20 pm, Tim Rau <bladedpeng... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\NIm's
>> >   code\sandbox 
>> > \sandbox.py", line 242, in <module>
>> >     player = ship()
>> >   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\NIm's
>> >   code\sandbox 
>> > \sandbox.py", line 121, in __init__
>> >     self.phyInit()
>> >   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\NIm's
>> >   code\sandbox 
>> > \sandbox.py", line 147, in phyInit
>> >     moi = cp.cpMomentForCircle(self.mass, .2, 0,
>> >     vec2d((0,0))) 
>> > ArgumentError: argument 4: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
>> > expected vec2d instance instead of vec2d
>>
>> > As far as I can tell, It's getting a vec2d, and it wants a
>> > vec2d. I't seems like it doesn't know what it wants, but I
>> > thought only teenagers did that, no programming languages.
>>
>> It possibly means that it is expecting an instance of a class
>> whose name is "vec2d"  but you have given it an instance of
>> some *other* class whose name just happens to be "vec2d".
>>
>> > clearly, Im missing something.
>>
>> Yes, some information:
>> 1. what is vec2d, class or function?
>> 2. what do you believe vec2d((0, 0)) should return?
>> 3. what is this belief based on?
>> 4. what has it actually returned this time?
>> 5. what do you believe that cp.cpMomentForCircle expects as
>> argument 4?
>> 6. what is this belief based on?
>>
>> The ArgumentError exception is raised by ctypes "when a foreign
>> function call cannot convert one of the passed arguments".
>> Based on guessin'n'googlin' the cp thing is a set of Python
>> bindings to a library written in C++ ... have you considered
>> asking the author of the bindings?
> 
> 1. vec2d is a class, designed to hold and manipulte 2d vectors
> 2. it should return a vector with x=0 and y=0
> 3. That's what it's done before.
> 4. trying it in the interpreter seems to show that it returns a
> vec2d with zero length. as it should.
> 5.cp.cpMomentForCircle seems to expect a vec2d. I'm baseing that
> on a functioning demo that uses the exact same line.
> 
> I guess that the vec2d I've got is not the one it wants. How do
> I tell the difference? I'll go look at all the imports.
> 

Are you passing the class or an instance of the class? I'd bet the 
former, but it should be the latter.

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