From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:12:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h95me655.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161224162300.65ceeb04@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2016 16:23:00 +0100")
Hello!
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> 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...
Could it be that Python 3 support in hplip is incomplete? (ISTR that
Python 3 treats Unicode sequences differently compared to Python 2.)
The hplip recipe has this comment:
;; Python3 support is available starting from hplip@3.15.2.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-29 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-24 13:56 Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails ng0
2016-12-24 14:08 ` ng0
2016-12-24 15:23 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-12-29 22:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-12-29 22:38 ` ng0
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