Re: [Gramps-devel] Gramps on Windows, Part 4

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

> 2010/2/16 Peter Landgren <pet...@te...>:
> > Trying to solve more Windows path problems:
> >
> > I created a new user "Pär" and installed Gramps in:
> > C:\Documents and Settings\Pär\Mina dokument\gramps320
> >
> > In "const.py", after ROOT_DIR and PLUGINS_DIR are defined, I inserted two
> > print statements: In "grampscli.py" I inserted a print statement directly
> > after the "import const" statement:
> >
> > C:\Documents and Settings\Pär\Mina dokument\gramps320>python.exe
> > gramps.py
> >
> > Def of ROOT_DIR: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and Settings\Pär\Mina
> > dokument\gramps320 Def of PLUGINS_DIR: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and
> > Settings\P"r\Mina dokument\gramps320\plugins
> >
> > After import const: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and Settings\P"r\Mina
> > dokument\gramps320\plugins
> >
> >
> > Note that Pär has changed to P"r after import!
> >
> > Can anyone explain this behavior?
>
> I think I know, you run const.py.in, this creates unicode paths, and
> writes them in const.py, but const.py, does not contain that it should
> use utf-8 on read.
>
> See PlaceUtils, the top should contain:
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> If you add that to const.py.in, it should be in const.py, and then
> python will read the unicode in the const.py file correctly.
>
> If not above, it would appear os.path.join is to blame in const.py.in
> when running makefile
Can't run makefile in Win so I manipulate const.py.
I have
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
on top of both const.py and grampscli.py.
 
> Then do some tests:
> PLUGINS_DIR    = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR,  u"plugins")
Done that, no change

> Or do the same differently:
> PLUGINS_DIR    = ROOT_DIR + os.sep + u"plugins"
Done, no change


More tests:

With this code in const.py:
print "Def of ROOT_DIR:", type(ROOT_DIR), ROOT_DIR
PLUGINS_DIR    = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, u"plugins")
print "Def of PLUGINS_DIR:", type(PLUGINS_DIR), PLUGINS_DIR 

and with this in grampscli.py:

import const
print "After import const:", type(const.PLUGINS_DIR), const.PLUGINS_DIR
for qaz in const.__dict__.keys(): print type(qaz), qaz

I get:

Def of ROOT_DIR: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and Settings\Pär\Mina dokument\gramps320
Def of PLUGINS_DIR: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and Settings\Pär\Mina dokument\gramps320\plugins
After import const: <type 'unicode'> C:\Documents and Settings\P"r\Mina dokument\gramps320\plugins
skip many lines
...
<type 'str'> ROOT_DIR
...
<type 'str'> PLUGINS_DIR
...
 So all attributes have type 'str' after call, but const.PLUGINS_DIR is unicode????
 
 
 Even tried:
from const import PLUGINS_DIR, USER_PLUGINS
print "After from const import ...:", type(PLUGINS_DIR), PLUGINS_DIR

No change

/Peter