Re: [Gramps-devel] gen.svn_revision.py

[Vassilii K. <vas...@ta...>]

On 14.09.2013 12:31, jerome wrote:
> Vassilii, you did a change on 'gen/svn_version.py' (revision 23119).
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>   "add get_git_svn_revision and fall back to it"
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> http://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/code/23119/
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> I did not run the modified file yet, but I was looking at this file because I got problem with stdout and encoding/decoding (codecs):
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> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py",
> line 321, in import_object __import__(self.modname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/cli/arghandler.py", line 48, in <module> from gramps.gen.recentfiles import recent_files File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/gen/recentfiles.py", line 43, in <module> from .const import HOME_DIR File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/gen/const.py", line 148, in <module> VERSION += get_svn_revision(ROOT_DIR) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/gen/svn_revision.py", line 43, in get_svn_revision stdout = cuni(stdout) # get a proper string
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
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> http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=6028#c31267
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> Right now, I need to skip: stdout = cuni(stdout) # get a proper string
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> So, I do not know what "get a proper string" means and how to avoid this encoding issue.
Unfortunately, I didn't put that code there, I added code that used the 
old code as a base.

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> If one knows how to run this part of the code via CLI (python) or how to properly convert stdout for getting a
> proper string, this might be useful for updating documentation/API.
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> I have no problem by running Gramps 4.0.x, only by running a script using this section.
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>
I couldn't parse the last sentence :-) are you saying things work for 
you from python, but not when you building the docs from sphinx?