[SQLObject] "SQLCall instance" instead of actual values

[Justin A. <JA...@ua...>]

I just reworked an app using sqlobject-0.6 to use a single connection to
the backend, and to hand out objects converted to dictionaries using
xmlrpc.  This was mostly to enable caching on the db and to simplify a
few things.

but now, after the first few requests I start to get errors like:

File "/tmp/sqlscanner/scandb.py", line 361, in scanasdict
    st=int(s.starttime)
exceptions.AttributeError: SQLCall instance has no attribute '__int__'

where that function is:
def scanasdict(s):
...
    if s.starttime:
        st=int(s.starttime)
    else :
        st=0
...
    scan={
        "id": s.id,
        "ip": s.ip,
...
        "starttime": st,
...
    return scan

and starttime is simply a DateTimeCol that can be NULL.

What could be causing a SQLCall instance to be returned instead of a
date, and how can I fix that?

-- 
-- Justin Azoff
-- Network Performance Analyst