Re: Big Zenmap news - __draw_node MemoryError

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:00:09AM +0100, jah wrote:
> I'm having difficulty tracking this issue down.  I've tried debugging,
> but can't seem to get a breakpoint into the right place to allow me to
> step through to the error.
>
> Anyway, what I can tell you is that the error occurs when trying to
> print an empty string next to hosts denoted with a little blue circle
> i.e. hops with no response.  It happens if I change the string in
> RadialNet.py:1092 to null char '\0'.
> It has no problem printing a non-empty string and so I've tried using a
> single space - this nicely works around the issue without being
> detrimental to the topology animation.
>
> I can only think that this is a bug in Python or one of the libraries,
> perhaps something to do with Pymalloc.

That's strange. It does sound like it's a bug outside Zenmap.

Is there any reason we can't just delete line 1092 (the whole else
clause)? Drawing nothing at all should have the same effect as drawing
an empty string. If that works, let me know.

David Fifield

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