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Subject: Re: Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:12:54 +0100
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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/shar=
e/hplip/setup.py", line 560, in <module>
>> >     desc =3D 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 b=
inary mode. However, ppd files are not binary and nickname_pat is not binar=
y either. So not sure what they were thinking...

Could it be that Python=C2=A03 support in hplip is incomplete?  (ISTR that
Python=C2=A03 treats Unicode sequences differently compared to Python=C2=A0=
2.)

The hplip recipe has this comment:

    ;; Python3 support is available starting from hplip@3.15.2.

Ludo=E2=80=99.