[wingide-users] Debugging xmlrpclib with Wing

[Wing IDE Support]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Wing IDE Support wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Detlefsen wrote:
> > I'm having trouble using the Wing debugger with the xmlrpclib module.
...
> I've fixed this in our sources and it'll be fixed in 2.0 final (but
> probably not 2.0rc2, which is due out soon).

Turns out, it *will* be fixed in 2.0rc2.  This fixes a class of
problems caused by values that define __getattr__ that always
return something for any attribute thrown at them, and also
for cases where the value returned is a callable instance.

> Later it may still be necessary to increase the Debugger / Advanced /
> Network Timeout preference, although the bug fix also reduces the amount
> of time we spend running around this value.  You'll know that you need
> to increase this timeout if it says <error handling> instead of showing
> a value.

Actually, you won't -- the fix avoids running around ServerProxy
via getattr() in ways that resulted in multiple network calls
building up to very slow data retrieval.

Thanks again for reporting this!

Stephan Deibel

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