[Zope-dev] ZODB....

[Chris McDonough]

It sounds like you are trying to call a module instead of a function...
for example, you're doing something like:

import ZODB.FileStorage
f = ZODB.FileStorage('file')

instead of:

import ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage
f = ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage('file')


Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:07:06 +0200, jdiebold@imexpert.com wrote:
> 
> >        I want to develop an external program that can store and retrieve
> >an Object (such as a Person) in the ZoDB
> 
> That sounds a bit cruel.
> 
> >I tried the example that I found in the How to's but it doesn't works ....
> >In fact, I have the following message :
> >ZODB.FileStorage(file)
> >attribute Error : FileStorage
> >
> >-->But I have imported ZODB
> >
> >And, when I try to import ZODB.FileStorage : the program stops with the
> >following message :
> >TypeError : call of non-function type
> >
> >what's wrong ?
> 
> You are trying to call an object, and that object is not callable.
> 
> Normally that error message should include the name of the type of the
> object that is being abused....
> 
> >>> "hello"()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: call of non-function (type string)
> 
> Either you truncated the message when you posted the message, or there
> is something strange with the object's type.
> 
> Unless you are using a pre-release python 1.6 or 2.0 - If so the name
> of your type might not get printed if it is unicode
> 
> Toby Dickenson
> tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
> 
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