Re: Blocked with Ordered broken on Win32 (was Database binary compatibility?)

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:41, Brian Kelley wrote:
> I'll bet you a beer that I know what you are doing wrong here (because
> I've done the same thing :) )
> 
Where are you? I'd like to collect (just kidding ;-)

grep -Hn open dbrestore.py
dbrestore.py:42:r = open('backup-data.sav','rb')

Good thought though.

> If you load or save on windows, you MUST supply the binary flag.
> 
> read
> file = open("foo", "b")
> 
> write
> file = open('foo", "wb")
> 
> Another reason why windows stinks (IMHO).  If you want portable
> metakit, whenever you use save or load just add the stupid binary
> flag.

The attached simple program pukes garbage on the screen
and after a couple of runs gives me the
SystemError: error return without exception set.

Do you have a Windows system that you could test it on?
-- 
William K. Volkman <[email protected]>

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import metakit

db = metakit.storage('bug.mk',1)
vw = db.getas('myview[_B[id:s,name:s,addr:s]]').blocked().ordered(2)
for id, name, addr in (('1','one','111'),('2','two','222'),('3','three','333'),('4','four','444')):
    print id, name, addr
    vw.append(id=id, name=name, addr=addr)
    db.commit()
for row in vw:
    print row.id, row.name, row.addr
metakit.dump(vw)