I am writing a web application for mod_python that catalogs my home (book) library. For now, I am using the Python dbm module to store string representations of mod_python's req.form (using the mod_python.publisher handler) using unique IDs as keys. In the .db file, there is a key 'next' that holds the next key for the next form submission. A TypeError exception is raised though when I attempt to increment the 'next' key. This only occurs in mod_python.
This code... self._db['next'] = str(int(self._db['next'])+1) raises this exception.... TypeError: string indices must be integers >>> y = dbm.open("Test","c") >>> next = 0 >>> y['next'] = str(next) >>> y['next'] = str(int(y['next'])+1) >>> y['next'] '1' >>> y['next'] = str(int(y['next'])+1) >>> y['next'] '2' I do not understand the cause of this exception. I am using Python 2.3.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Kaskel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list