Re: Trouble with a certain Exception

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Trouble with a certain Exception

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Re: Trouble with a certain Exception

May 4th, 2008

My money's on a bug in speaker.Speak() OR on an improperly installed wxPython module. Here's why:

Your line chooses a random item from Health2, which is presumed to be a list.

If Health2 is not a list, then random.choice throws a TypeError, which is not your issue.

Further, random.choice() is a well-tested function that couldn't possibly throw the error you're getting. So ... that leaves speaker.Speak() as the source of the error.

Next task: identify the class of "speaker", and check out the code for its Speak() method.

It looks like from the first line of your Traceback that speaker.Speak() tries to import wxPython and do something fancy from there.

Here's how to test for a problem with your wxPython install:

From the command line of IDLE:

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>>> import wx
>>> e = wx.DateTime()
>>> e.GetNumberOfDaysInYear(2008)
366
>>> import wx
>>> e = wx.DateTime()
>>> e.GetNumberOfDaysInYear(2008)
366

If you get the right result, then the bug's in Speak(). If not, then you should (re?)install wx.

Jeff

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