Re: [Docutils-users] docutils Causing Python 2.7.3 Dumps Under Cgywin?

[Tim D. <tu...@tu...>]

On 03/18/2013 04:30 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
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> Thanks for the report. As already said, it is difficult to find the reason
> without further info. I have some guesses, though:
>
> * A common problem (and a nightmare for parallel Py2x and Py3x development)
>    are the encoding issues. It may well be that Cygwin adds to them in a way
>    that cannot be tested otherwhere.

This seems likely.  See below.

>
>    The biggest problem was encoding errors preventing sensible error messages
>    --- errors when reporting an error. I thought to have them solved but
>    maybe some resurfaces in your case.
>
>    If you run one of the aborting commands from the command line and add the
>    --traceback command line option, do you get a traceback?

There is no traceback output.  All I see is the aforementioned "Aborted"
message at the end of the run even though rst2* has done its job.
This is starting to look more and more like a Python-on-Cygwin problem
not a docutils problem.  I think docutils may just have exposed the issue.

>
>    If yes, this would be an immense help, if no, the actuall error message
>    would still be valuable info.
>
> * It may be that Cygwin uses a newer Python version than your alternatives.
>    There are several bugreports regarding Python beta versions that are not
>    handled yet because
>
>    + we cannot reproduce them with the stable Python release (here on
>      Debian/testing).
>    + some seem to be rather Python bugs than Docutils bugs and we prefer to
>      concentrate our scare recourses on the problems with stable releases.
>      (patches that anticipate problems with upcoming changes are welcome,
>      of course).


I have tested this on Python 2.7.3 on both Cygwin (failed) and FreeBSD 9-STABLE
(successful).

I cannot test on Python 3.2.3 because when I attempt to install docutils under
Cygwin's Python 3 implementation, I see this:


byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py to __init__.cpython-32.pyc
   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py", line 117
     self.literal_double_quote = u'"' # TODO: use \textquotedbl
                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/writers/__init__.py to __init__.cpython-32.pyc
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/_compat.py to _compat.cpython-32.pyc
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/__init__.py to __init__.cpython-32.pyc
   File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/docutils/__init__.py", line 75
     return u', '.join(self.args)
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


>
> Could your try whether using an older Python version solves the problem?
> Could you try with Python 3?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Günter
>
>
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Tim Daneliuk