[reportlab-users] Crash when generating large PDF (100+ pages)

[Jens Ådne Rydland]

Hi,

I recently got a strange crash deep down in reportlab.lib.xmllib,
traceback is:

  File "/www/sites/[domain-name-removed]/views/pdfexport.py", line 658, in make_fa_pdf 
 qdata.append([Paragraph(u"<b>%s</b>" % qa.question, styleN),\  
 
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py", line 798, in __init__   
 self._setup(text, style, bulletText, frags, cleanBlockQuotedText)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py", line 813, in _setup
 style, frags, bulletTextFrags = _parser.parse(text,style)
 
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/paraparser.py", line 881, in parse
 self.close() # force parsing to complete                                                            

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/lib/xmllib.py", line 521, in close
 self.parser.close()  
 
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'


Unfortunately I wasn't the one who caused the crash, the traceback came
from an automated email from Django, and I've been unable to reproduce
the error, so I'm afraid I can't provide detailed information regarding
what is being sent to Paragraph() in the first place. So I'm just hoping
that perhaps someone has an idea about why self.parser has been set to
None.

Also, seeing as this crash happened with Reportlab 2.3 is it perhaps
possible that upgrading to Reportlab 2.5 could fix the problem?

Really sorry I can't provide more detailed information, I wish I had a
proper traceback.


-- 
 Jens Ådne Rydland