Analysing load_session

[Frank Koormann]

* Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> [041027 12:51]:
> Frank Koormann <frank.koormann at intevation.de> writes:
> 
> > on a trip back from Bruxelles I yesterday implemeted a (second) try for
> > concept to handle "missing" data while loading a session.
> [...]
> > Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DBFFile instance has no attribute
> > 'thisown'" in  ignored
> 
> This means that there was an error when a DBFFile was instantiated.
> SWIG's wrapper objects have an instance variable 'thisown' which is set
> a little too late in __init__ so that it can happen that it's not set in
> __del__.  In your case this probably comes from a missing DBF file since
> that's what you're trying to deal with.  The message is pretty harmless
> in most cases.

Sounds reasonable. I try to load alternatives while catching exceptions 
from OpenShapefile(filename). So this leads to some garbage ...

> If we want to fix this properly we either need to use newer versions of
> SWIG or not use SWIG at all.

We should give the first alternative a try if someone find some time.

Frank

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