Okay - I am officially embarrassed. As you might now, I am splitting this 10,000 line file apart, and that is posing certain challenges which I am fixing, and cleaning up stuff that was broken and visible only when doing this split.
This is one of them. What I failed to remember -- and you guys are free to bash me for this -- was so simple once I put a print in to see what the value was of the string entering the function. I had (after modifications suggested): def special_match(s, hunt=SPECIAL_CHARS.search): BUT This is defined in a Class - and I missed it. Should have been def special_match(self,s, hunt=SPECIAL_CHARS.search): Sorry guys - but thanks for the excellent suggestions/advice. I am sure not a python guru, python is my entry into OOP. So, rest assured I come to the list after trying to figure it out, but lesson learned. That is why it worked in one piece of code - it was standalone, and didn't work in the class where it has been moved to. No excuse, but there it is nonetheless. <sheepishly> Chris On Jul 10, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Hare <ch...@labr.net> wrote: >> The input to the function in the larger program is the same as the first >> test in the small script that works -- "admin". >> >> As a side note -- the rstrip call is also broken, although the string module >> is imported. I just can't figure out why this code works in one context and >> not in another. > > I suspect you defined "bool" somewhere to be a string. That, or else > you passed in a string as the search argument. Unfortunately Python > doesn't tell you which expression raised the exception, but certainly > it's one of those two. > > -- Devin _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
