[openspending-dev] AggregationCache error, "db type could not be determined"

Sun Mar 11 20:11:23 UTC 2012

Just noting for reference that this error, not unique to the
aggregation cache -- it'll occur with any Beaker caching -- is caused
by a bug in Python <= 2.7.2.

See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/942749

For Homebrew users this has been patched downstream:

  https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/546fda9255474f07f09898ba58eb6c5b47a5dedd

(So you can fix this simply by running `brew install python`)

The fix will also presumably be in Python 2.7.3:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/

Hopefully none of you ever run into this, but just putting this in the
list archives in case anyone does.

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