Re: normalize in PyXML version hell (was: ...)

Will,

> Hi, Harlan et al.  This is PyXML version madness; sigh.
> What version of PyXML do you have?

I'm pretty sure I'm running Python-2.0 and PyXML-0.6.1.  Not positive on the
last bit, though.  Does python have a way to query/display the version
number of a package?

> The offending code is somewhere along here in
> ARK/arkbase/ark/xmlfile.py:
> 
>         try: # works for 2.0/... ?
> 	    # import xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax
> 	    # doc  = xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax.FromXmlStream(thing_file)
>             import xml.dom.minidom
>             doc  = xml.dom.minidom.parse(filename)
>             root_elem = doc.documentElement
>         except ImportError:
>             #thing_file.close() # because we're about to reopen it
>             import xml.dom.core
>             import xml.dom.utils
>             doc  = xml.dom.utils.FileReader().readFile(filename)
>             root_elem = doc.documentElement
> 
>         root_elem.normalize()
> 
> I'm going to *guess* that you threw an exception in the
> 'try' part (which you shouldn't have...).  Perhaps put a
> 
>     print 'here' # or 'there'
> 
> before/after the 'except ImportError', and remove all
> doubt.

I had to put the "here" line before the "try" line; the "there" line was
afater the "except" stuff:

root@dog# ./try-ark 
./try-ark: warning: this script may be overly paranoid and, um, wrong...
+ ./arkcmd package reveal --hosts=dog --verbose --use-deps=max arkbase
here
there
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./arkcmd", line 41, in ?
    things_mgr.doToolSubcommand()
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 153, in doToolSubcommand
    victims       = self.unpackSpecs(ark_ctrl.cmdLineNonOptions())
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 86, in unpackSpecs
    thing = self.lookup(thing_name,team_id)
  File "./ark/thing.py", line 47, in lookup
    team_id = ark.team.ACTING_TEAM().id
  File "./ark/team.py", line 23, in ACTING_TEAM
    _ActingTeam.instance = ArkTeam(acting_team_id)
  File "./ark/team.py", line 78, in __init__
    (self._is_prototype, self._xmlf) = xml_file.read(explicit_filename="%s/team.xml" % (ark.control.ArkControl().repository(team_id)))
  File "./ark/xmlfile.py", line 111, in read
    root_elem.normalize()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 74, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, key
AttributeError: normalize
root@dog#

> Does your
> /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py
> include a 'normalize' method ('def normalize(...):')?

No, not according to "grep -i".

> I'd guess either an unfriendly version of PyXML, or perhaps
> a good version misinstalled (though it doesn't look like it)...
> 
> Will