I need some help interpreting this error

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Wed Feb 17 11:52:55 EST 2021


Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> >But msghdr["subject"] is surely just a string isn't it?  Why is it 
> >complaining about something of type 'Header'?
> 
>   What would you do to debug-print the type of an object?
> 
I don't know, what would I do?  :-)

Without knowing what provokes the problem I could be waiting for days
or weeks even before I see the error again.  As I'd need to print the
type for every message I'd get some big logs or I'd need to add a try:
except to trap the specific error.

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Chris Green
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