Re: Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails

[Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:08:44 +0000
ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> wrote:

> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/gnu/store/95vp3r6n9z7s85achc7a0b8aay1k73qq-hplip-3.16.11/share/hplip/setup.py", line 560, in <module>
> >     desc = nickname_pat.search(nickname).group(1)
> > TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

The reason that fails is because gzip.GzipFile always provides reads in binary mode. However, ppd files are not binary and nickname_pat is not binary either. So not sure what they were thinking...

                            if file_path.endswith('.gz'):
                                nickname = gzip.GzipFile(file_path, 'r').read(4096) # bytes, not str
                            else:
                                nickname = open(file_path, 'r').read(4096) # str

                            try:
                                desc = nickname_pat.search(nickname).group(1)
                            except AttributeError:
                                desc = ''

A quick fix would be to gunzip the ppd file and specify it without ".gz" in hp-setup. You don't need to patch anything for this.

A better fix with patching would be: Replacing

                                nickname = gzip.GzipFile(file_path, 'r').read(4096)

by

                                nickname = gzip.GzipFile(file_path, 'r').read(4096).decode("utf-8")

.

An even better fix would be to find out which parts are supposed to be binary and which are supposed to be text - use the correct functions accordingly and upstream it.