Re: [Pyode-user] setCategoryBits busted?

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Alan Blount wrote:
>   geom.setCategoryBits(1)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "minimum.py", line 7, in ?
>     geom.setCategoryBits(1)
>   File "geomobject.pyx", line 234, in ode.GeomObject.setCategoryBits
> SystemError: Objects/longobject.c:240: bad argument to internal function
> 
> Any idea what gives?  I looked at the pyrex source for geomobject.pyx
> and didn't see anything obvious wrong.

This is rather a "bug" in the documentation as setCategoryBits() and 
setCollideBits() actually expect a long value and not an int (I also 
wasn't aware of that until recently when I stumbled across the same 
exception).
This means you have to change your code to:

    geom.setCategoryBits(1L)

or

    geom.setCategoryBits(long(1))


However, I've just commited a change so that also int values can be 
passed (and I corrected the doc strings).
(On the other hand, should that really be changed? It will break 
programs written for PyODE >1.0.0 when they're used with 1.0.0. Maybe it 
would be better to update the docs only. Any opinions?)

- Matthias -