Comment 14 for bug 666297

ran on staging to try it:

[oxfam@karlhost01 current]$ bin/debug
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Jun 7 2010, 14:10:57)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2
Type "help" for more information. "root" is the karl root object.
>>> from karl.utilities.rename_user import rename_user
>>> root['profiles']['kuhlermckeown'] = object()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/karlstaging/karl/oxfam/3.5.4-3/eggs/repoze.folder-0.4-py2.5.egg/repoze/folder/__init__.py", line 141, in __setitem__
    return self.add(name, other)
  File "/opt/karlstaging/karl/oxfam/3.5.4-3/eggs/repoze.folder-0.4-py2.5.egg/repoze/folder/__init__.py", line 165, in add
    other.__parent__ = self
AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute '__parent__'
>>>