[PyKDE] Bizarre backtrace?

[Phil Thompson]

Bill Soudan wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on a client/server process monitor type application
> lately, with a plain python backend and a PyQt GUI that communicate via
> XMLRPC.  I've run into a stumbling block today though that I can't quite
> figure out, I was hoping someone may be able to shed some light on it
> and/or suggest a few debugging tips, as I'm somewhat of a Python newbie.
> 
> Here's the bizarre backtrace I'm receiving, which happens when the process 
> monitor backend invokes a method in the PyQt GUI using XMLRPC:
> 
> socket_notifier fired, calling handle_request
> ----------------------------------------
> Exception happened during processing of request from ('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', 
> 61438)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/SocketServer.py", line 221, in handle_request
>     self.process_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/SocketServer.py", line 240, in process_request
>     self.finish_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/SocketServer.py", line 253, in finish_request
>     self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/SocketServer.py", line 513, in __init__
>     self.setup()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/SocketServer.py", line 557, in setup
>     self.rfile = self.connection.makefile('rb', self.rbufsize)
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'sipThis'
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> I can't for the life of me figure out why the exception is being thrown,
> and the fact it appears related to sip is especially bizarre because this
> particular bit of code really has nothing to do with PyQt or sip at all.  
> The only possible conneciton is that I'm using a QSocketNotifier to tell
> me when a request is waiting on the socket.  I have verified that the 
> exception is in fact being thrown from that line, however, by placing 
> debugging print statements in the library modules.
> 
> Any tips?  The other oddity is that this error occurs randomly, most 
> requests succeed..  I'd say it happens about 25% of the time.
> 
> Obligatory version info:
> 
> sip-3.2.4-1
> PyQt-devel-3.2.4-1
> PyQt-3.2.4-1
> python2-2.2-16
> python2-devel-2.2-16
> 
> RedHat-7.3, all components installed via rpm.


sipThis is created by the ctor of a PyQt class. Normally this error 
occurs when you have sub-classed a PyQt class but forgot to call the 
PyQt class __init__() from your sub-class's __init__().

Phil