Hi James, Thanks. Perfect response and very helpful. Greatly appreciate it.
Hani On Jun 28, 1:03 am, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Hani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My questions are: > > 1. can anyone explain the error a little better to me? > > 2. Is it a bug in the python-twitter api, or in django, or in my code? > > 3. Is there a fix that does not involve using the patch? > > 4. If I have to use the patch, could someone provide easy to follow > > steps for me to apply it (absolutely no clue here)? > > Question 1 (this is going to gloss over a lot of things, but hopefully > will help): > > Basically, on Unix and Unix-like systems, there is a concept of a > "controlling terminal" -- for example, if you're on Mac OS X (which is > BSD-ish Unix under the hood), you can open a Terminal and launch a > Python interpreter; in this case, the instance of Terminal.app you're > using will be the "controlling terminal" of the process the Python > interpreter is running in. > > It's often useful to get information about your controlling process, > because this can answer some fairly practical question; in the case of > the Twitter API, it was looking for the username of the logged-in user > who launch the Python process, which is available if, for example, it > was launched directly from a command line. Python's standard 'os' > module allows you to do this sort of thing fairly easily. However, > there are cases where the controlling process doesn't support this > sort of thing, and in those cases the Python functions will raise an > IOError (you can also take some steps to determine in advance whether > your controlling process supports these functions). > > Question 2: Yes, it is (or was) a bug in the Twitter module. > > Question 3: the ticket you're looking at is a duplicate of one I filed > earlier, and which was marked fixed some time > ago:http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=14 > > The relevant patch catches the IOError and falls back to a default > value when the necessary information isn't > available:http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/detail?r=113# > > So if you do an svn up on your copy of the Twitter module, it should work. > > -- > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
