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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:01:07 -0500

Hey, Pythoneers -

I've just installed the "unicode" package after finding out about it from Ren<a9>; it sounds like a very cool gadget, something I can really use... but it appears to be broken:

ben@Tyr:~$ unicode
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unicode", line 159, in ?
    out( "Making directory %s\n" % (HomeDir) )
  File "/usr/bin/unicode", line 33, in out
    sys.stdout.write(i.encode(options.iocharset, 'replace'))
NameError: global name 'options' is not defined
Line 570 says

(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
but even if I give it an arg like "-h", it still gives me the same error. Any suggestions for fixing it before I turn it in to the Ubuntu maintainers?

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René Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]


Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:58:13 +0100

On Dec 28, 2007 at 1001 -0500, Ben Okopnik appeared and said:

> Hey, Pythoneers -
>
> I've just installed the "unicode" package after finding out about it
> from René; it sounds like a very cool gadget, something I can really
> use... but it appears to be broken:

I use it for a long time and I didn't even know that it was written in Python. Where did you get your version from? I use the one from the Debian releases, and the packaged version works just fine. Just for reference, can you try this version? http://web.luchs.at/support/unicode It's from my Debian Etch workstation.

> ``
> ben@Tyr:~$ unicode
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/unicode", line 159, in ?
>     out( "Making directory %s\n" % (HomeDir) )
>   File "/usr/bin/unicode", line 33, in out
>     sys.stdout.write(i.encode(options.iocharset, 'replace'))
> NameError: global name 'options' is not defined
> ''
> Line 570 says
> ``
> (options, args) =3D parser.parse_args()
> ''
>
> but even if I give it an arg like "-h", it still gives me the same
> error.

Maybe your Python misses a package (or a ritual sacrifice)...

> Any suggestions for fixing it before I turn it in to the Ubuntu
> maintainers?

Ok, forget the question where you got your version of unicode from. :)

Best, René.


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:11:31 -0500

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:58:13PM +0100, Ren<a9> Pfeiffer wrote:

> On Dec 28, 2007 at 1001 -0500, Ben Okopnik appeared and said:
> > Hey, Pythoneers -
> > 
> > I've just installed the "unicode" package after finding out about it
> > from Ren<a9>; it sounds like a very cool gadget, something I can really
> > use... but it appears to be broken:
> 
> I use it for a long time and I didn't even know that it was written in
> Python. Where did you get your version from? 

The Ubuntu repository, via 'apt-get'.

> I use the one from the
> Debian releases, and the packaged version works just fine. Just for
> reference, can you try this version? http://web.luchs.at/support/unicode
> It's from my Debian Etch workstation.

That one works fine. Thanks!

> Maybe your Python misses a package (or a ritual sacrifice)...

The problem is that I keep eluding its coils, despite having to tweak the LG scripts once in a while. :) It doesn't like me...

> > Any suggestions for fixing it before I turn it in to the Ubuntu
> > maintainers?
> 
> Ok, forget the question where you got your version of unicode from. :)

I'll compare the two and see if I can make some sense out of the diffs. If not, well, maybe someone else here can decode the snake vomit. ;)

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