Error I don't understand

Hi list,

code:

DB = Pyro4.Proxy( gvar.conf['rpc_registered_name'] )
DB._pyroHmacKey = gvar.conf['hmac_key']
gvar.conf['db_hash'], gvar.conf['db_right'] = DB.getRights(
            gvar.conf['db_name'], gvar.conf['db_user_name'],
            gvar.conf['db_user_password'], gvar.conf['encoding'] )
DB._pyroRelease()

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "DBconnection.py", line 869, in OnBTok
    gvar.conf['db_hash'], gvar.conf['db_right'] = DB.getRights(
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 233, in __getattr__ self._pyroGetMetadata() File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 482, in _pyroGetMetadata self.__pyroCreateConnection() File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 422, in __pyroCreateConnection uri = resolve(self._pyroUri,
self._pyroHmacKey) File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/naming.py",
line 443, in resolve uri = nameserver.lookup(uri.object) File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 233, in __getattr__ self._pyroGetMetadata() File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 482, in _pyroGetMetadata self.__pyroCreateConnection() File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pyro4-4.33-py2.7.egg/Pyro4/core.py",
line 448, in __pyroCreateConnection raise ce
Pyro4.errors.CommunicationError: cannot connect: character mapping must
return integer, None or unicode

Every parms is correct (and this is working right in a test pgm,
although i retrieve these parms from a conf.py file, not a global dict),
and I rechecked them just before the call:

gvar.conf['rpc_registered_name'] = PYRONAME:rpc.server
gvar.conf['hmac_key'] = mykey
gvar.conf['db_name'] = mydb
gvar.conf['db_user_name'] = mydbusr
gvar.conf['db_user_password'] = mydbusrpw
gvar.conf['encoding'] = utf-8

so I'm a bit lost.

Jean-Yves

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