hi,

i'll try improving the error message from pycurl a bit, for instance
by stating the desired type and the type of the input object.

regards,
    - kjetil

On 7/17/07, Michael Sanders <m.r.sanders_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just spent a day battling with the error:
>
> TypeError: invalid arguments to setopt
>
> It turns out that the URL I was setting with 'conn.setopt(conn.URL,url)'
> was a unicode object and not a string. I hadn't expected it to be
> Unicode and so spent a while scratching my head (and compiling up the
> latest version of pycurl, etc.) before I decided to examine the type of
> the object being passed! With hindsight, this should have been one of
> the first things I checked, but I didn't ;-)
>
> So to re-iterate - make sure the URL you pass is a string object and not
> unicode. Just thought I'd flag it up in case anyone else encounters this...
>
> Michael
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