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Re: Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Trouble setting up hplip and cups - printer ppd fails |
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Date: |
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:12:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:08:44 +0000
> ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > 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
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> 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 address@hidden
Ludo’.