Re: [Orbit-python-list] stuck

[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko async com br>]

On 4 Oct 2001, Frank Rehberger wrote:

> This works, but I assume, after re-login, that the entire GNOME desktop
> is using this setting now.

As the applications start, actually, since ORBit only reads this at
startup.

> I did try
> ./test-server.py -ORBIIOPIPv4=1 -ORBIIOPUSock=0
> and also
> ./test-server.py -ORBIIOPIPv4 1 -ORBIIOPUSock 0
>
> both did not work (orbit-python 0.3, ORBit-0.5.8)

Hmmm. Well, I assume you are passing sys.argv on to ORBit, which means
it's ignoring the flags. I'll look into orbit's code... Hmmm! Heh, we have
a bug in ORBit-Python (Tack, what about those zero bugs there?). Try this
patch -- damn, sourceforge is offline so no patch is possible. Okay try
doing this:

-- line 56 in CORBA__ORB_init() --

    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {

-> swap

        PyObject *o = PyObject_Repr(PyTuple_GetItem(orb_args, i - 1));

-> for

        PyObject *o = PyObject_Str(PyTuple_GetItem(orb_args, i - 1));


        argv[i] = g_strdup(PyString_AsString(o));
        Py_DECREF(o);
    }

-- line 61 --

PyObject_Repr adds single quotes, and is wrong. Using _Str() has corrected
the problem here, providing nice handling (this was a bug I ran into a
year ago but was too clueless to fix, how funny.)

BTW: I very commonly use gdb to track down this sort of problem and since
a few people here might want to use it with python, here's a tip. Start
python with a "gdb python" and in your script, add the lines

import signal, os
os.kill(os.getpid, signal.SIGINT)

where you want it to stop, and "r foo.py". The script will stop at that
point, and you can "break" inside loaded modules and so forth.

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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