[egenix-users] mx.DateTime.DateTimeDelta.pytimedelta() segfaults

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 25.11.2012 20:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> thanks for reporting the bug. We are able to reproduce this on our
> systems, so will investigate and then get back to you.

Turns out this is caused by the lazy import of the datetime module
we're using in mxDateTime. The .pytimedelta() method doesn't make
sure the module is already loaded.

Here's a quick work-around:

# Force import and setup of the datetime module in mxDateTime
from mx.DateTime import Date
Date(2012,11,25).pydate()

This only has to be done once in the application (but should of
course happen automatically in mxDateTime).

After the call to .pydate() the datetime module is setup and
ready to be used by mxDateTime and all subsequent calls to the
methods succeed without segfaults.

We'll release version 3.2.5 next week to address this bug.

Thanks for the report,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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