[ZODB-Dev] Mysterious traceback ...

[Tim Peters]

[Tim Peters]
>>> If you simply look inside ZODB3-3.3.tgz, you'll quickly see that
>>> utils.py does indeed define a positive_id() function, so whatever it is
>>> that you did, you're not actually importing the ZODB.utils from the
>>> tarball.

[Stephen Waterbury]
> Wait a minute -- how could that be anyway?  Wouldn't the previous
> ZODB/utils.py be over-written by the new install?

If it had been, you would not have gotten a complaint about utils.py not
supplying the positive_id() function.  Since nobody else has had this
problem, you're in the best position to track down what happened and why.