Thanks for the reply Rob - yup it's a string all right, but the only
time *I* pass anything to rfc3399 is when I pass it a datetime.datetime
object.
It seems that the routine feedgenerator.writeString is sending rfc3399
a string rather than a datetime.datetime object, which it gets from the
write method of Atom1Feed - the relevant bit is here...
handler.addQuickElement(u"updated",
rfc3339_date(self.latest_post_date()).decode('ascii'))
Which leads to this (with my debug prints);
def latest_post_date(self):
"""
Returns the latest item's pubdate. If none of them have a
pubdate,
this returns the current date/time.
"""
updates = [i['pubdate'] for i in self.items if i['pubdate'] is
not None]
print "UPDATES", updates
if len(updates) > 0:
updates.sort()
print "updates:", type(updates[-1])
return updates[-1]
else:
print "datetime.datetime.now()", datetime.datetime.now()
return datetime.datetime.now()
What happens now?
Well, this;
UPDATES ['2005-11-25T11:51:01Z']
updates: <type 'str'>
Which leads to the blow-up.
I would have thought that other people would have seen this which is
why I re-iterate "what stupid thing am I doing here?" ;)
many thanks
Tone
