[chirp_devel] Build test results: Successful - STEPs

[Dan Clemmensen]

AHH! This explains why I was getting funny results for the UI STEP list in
ft4. Fortunately, I needed an internal
lookup list that differed from the list of "legal" values I sent to the UI,
so I had already forced a true separate copy
before I did the remove, so it's NOT MY FAULT (for once). There is no
substitute for sheer dumb luck.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:24 PM Dan Smith via chirp_devel <
chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> > Thanks for finding the root cause of this problem. I tried to figure
> > it out but didn't quite look hard enough. I also didn't have any
> > success with solving the STEP error that is being generated for those
> > trying to program their UV-6R.
>
> No problem! I kinda caused the acute user-facing issue with my recent
> change of the defaults. I knew that was going to cause the rash of issues
> that is has, but I think it's important to just flush them out and get them
> fixed, so I've been trying to jump on them.
>
> One thing we can do to try to be more defensive about such things in the
> future, is use tuples for immutable lists of things. Since they can't be
> modified they will help defend against such things (and is the trick I used
> to figure out who was being naughty in this case):
>
> > >>> foo = [1,2,3]
> > >>> foo.remove(2)
> > >>> bar = (1,2,3)
> > >>> bar.remove(2)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'remove'
> > >>> bar[0] = 1
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
>
> By changing uv5r.STEPS to a tuple for a sec, it caused loading of the
> other driver to fail like the above.
>
> --Dan
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