By accident I assigned int to a class member 'count' which was initialized to (empty) string and had no error till I tried to use it as string, obviously. Why was there no error on assignment( near the end ).
class Cgroup_info: group_name = "" count = "0" #last time checked and processed/retrieved first = "0" last = "" retrieval_type = "" # allways , ask( if more than some limit), none date_checked = "" time_checked = "" new_count = "" new_first = "" new_last = "" # local storage maintanance vars pointer_file = "" message_file = "" #maintanance vars cur_mess_num = 0 cur_mess_id = "" def __init__( self ): group_name = "" count = "0" #last time checked and processed/retrieved def get_count( self ): print self.count, type( self.count ) return string.atoi( self.count, 10 ) class server_info: def "(server_info::)"get_group_stat( self, grp ): gr_info = Cgroup_info() gr_info.group_name = grp try: ind = self.group_list.index( grp ) except ValueError: gr_info.count(0) return ( gr_info ) print ind if len( self.group_list[ind].split() ) == 4: gr_info.count = self.group_list[ind].split()[1] gr_info.first = self.group_list[ind].split()[2] gr_info.last = self.group_list[ind].split()[3] else: gr_info.count = gr_info.first = gr_info.last = "0" return( gr_info ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list