Django choking oddly on some static media
- by Edan Maor
My situation: I'm serving static media via Django on my dev machine.
On some files that I try and load, I get back this error:
Traceback:
File "c:\Program Files\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
92. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\views.py" in userpage
71. so_user = site.user(userid)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\stackexchange.py" in user
476. u, = self.users((nid,), **kw)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\stackexchange.py" in users
481. return self._get(User, ids, 'users', kw)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\stackexchange.py" in _get
471. return self.build(root, typ, coll, kw)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\stackexchange.py" in build
448. json = self._request(url, kw)
File "E:\Stack2Blog\src.hg\stack2blog\..\stack2blog\stack2blogapp\stackexchange.py" in _request
422. dump = json.load(data)
File "c:\Program Files\Python26\lib\json\__init__.py" in load
264. return loads(fp.read(),
Exception Type: AttributeError at /userpage/362498
Exception Value: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'
I've traced it to specific files which don't work (by going to their specific urls).
Here's the odd part: changing the filename of the files makes them suddenly work. For example, I had a file called 'post.jpg', which gave this error. I renamed it to 'pos.jpg' and it worked. Back to 'post.jpg' and it gives the same error.
