[Twisted-Python] Broken HOWTO documentation

Michael McLay mclay at python.net
Wed Apr 16 17:44:09 EDT 2003


I have been trying to get the examples in section 2.4 of the HOWTO to work. It 
looks like the documentation is out of date with the current state of the 
software in the CVS. starting with 2.4.2, the "app.theApplication" returns 
the error

>>> a = app.theApplication
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'theApplication'
>>> dir(app)
['Accessor', 'Application', 'ApplicationService', 'DefaultAuthorizer', 
'False', 'MultiService', 'PortCollection', 'ServiceCollection', 
'StopIteration', 'StringIO', 'True', '_AbstractServiceCollection', '__all__', 
'__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'bool', 'defer', 'dict', 
'encrypt', 'error', 'inet_ntop', 'inet_pton', 'interfaces', 'isinstance', 
'iter', 'log', 'main', 'os', 'platform', 'socket', 'string', 'styles', 
'types', 'warnings']

I had problems with the examples in section 2.4.3 and 2.5 as well. In section 
2.5 the telnet localhost 4040 command returned a different module location 
instead of twisted.protocols.telnet.ShellFactory and when I ran dir(__main__) 
the list of names did not come close to matching what was in the example. No 
twisted objects were listed.




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