[mod_python] SystemError: error return without exception set

Antonis Christofides wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run moinmoin on mod_python 2.7.10, python 2.3.5, apache
> 1.3.36, on a NetBSD.  I get the error on the subject when it's running
> the following code (in the line marked with "=>"):
> 
>         sys.stderr.write(str(env)+"\n")
>         sys.stderr.write(env["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]+"\n")
>         sys.stderr.write(self.http_accept_language+"\n")
>  =>     sys.stderr.write(env.get('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE',self.http_accept_language))
> 
> (In fact the original code said the following:
>         self.http_accept_language = env.get('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE',
>                                             self.http_accept_language)
>  but I inserted the four lines before that to see what's in the
>  variables.
> )
> 
> The output in the log file is:
>     {'UNIQUE_ID': 'RMThtFLFptoAAB6zB5o', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'Apache/1.3.36
> (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.3.5', [...snip...]
> 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'el,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3', [...snip...] }
>     el,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
>     en
>     [Mon Jul 24 17:05:24 2006] SystemError: error return without exception
> set
> 
> So, as I understand, env.get(...) should return "el,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3".
> 
> You have any clue what to check next? Thanks!

How is your specific problem linked to mod_python itself? What is "env", is it
an object created by mod_python or by something else?

BTW, you shouldn't use sys.stderr to output logging under mod_python anyway.
You should use mod_python.apache.log_error(). Using sys.stderr is not gauranteed
to actually produce anything in the Apache log in a timely fashion.

Graham