oddness in shelve module

[Michael P. Soulier]

I'm trying to add objects to a shelve db object via hash assignment, but
I'm getting an odd exception.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "RemGui.py", line 117, in onMonitorButton
self.startMonitoring()
File "RemGui.py", line 163, in startMonitoring
self.monitor()
File "RemGui.py", line 181, in monitor
self.db.store_sample(dbentry)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael Soulier\My
Documents\projects\rem\pysr
c\RemDBShelve.py", line 38, in store_sample
self.db[sample.timestamp] = sample
TypeError: object does not support item assignment

The object itself is quite simple.

I provide it below. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Mike

class RemDBEntry(object):
"""This class represents one entry in the database. It stores a
merging of all of the document types supplied by the server."""

def __init__(self, timestamp):
self.timestamp = timestamp
self.procs = []
self.partitions = []
self.free = None
self.uptime = None

def merge(self, doc):
"""This method takes a RemDoc object and merges it with the
current object."""

if doc.type == 'uptime':
self.uptime = doc.scalar
elif doc.type == 'ps':
self.procs = doc.children
elif doc.type == 'siloShow':
self.partitions = doc.children
elif doc.type == 'siloShowMaxFree':
self.free = doc.scalar
else:
raise AssertionError, "Unknown document type: %s" % doc.type


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[John Machin]

I'm trying to add objects to a shelve db object via hash assignment, but
I'm getting an odd exception.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "RemGui.py", line 117, in onMonitorButton
self.startMonitoring()
File "RemGui.py", line 163, in startMonitoring
self.monitor()
File "RemGui.py", line 181, in monitor
self.db.store_sample(dbentry)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael Soulier\My
Documents\projects\rem\pysr
c\RemDBShelve.py", line 38, in store_sample
self.db[sample.timestamp] = sample
TypeError: object does not support item assignment

The object itself is quite simple.

I provide it below.

AFAICT, wrong "it". The "item assignment" which is alleged not to be
supported is of this form: an_object[some_key] = a_value

I.e. "self.db" is the suspect, not "sample"

 

[John Machin]

AFAICT, wrong "it". The "item assignment" which is alleged not to be
supported is of this form: an_object[some_key] = a_value

I.e. "self.db" is the suspect, not "sample"

Ah. Let me test that it is in fact being created properly then. I
expected an error more like, "object has no property db" in that case.

Mike

sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough -- you seem to think I meant "self"
has no attribute called "db". No, "self.db" exists, but it doesn't
support the activity of assigning to an indexed item, like a dictionary.

The interactive interpreter is your friend:

>>> adict = {}
>>> adict[3] = 4
>>> notlikeadict = 666
>>> notlikeadict[3] = 4

Traceback (most recent call last):

This is the message that you are thinking about, the word is
"attribute", not "property".
.... pass
....Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: Dummy instance has no attribute 'dc'