FS#42970 - [python-html2text] html2text won't accept standard input

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Mark Blakeney (bulletmark) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 02:09 GMT
Last edited by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Friday, 05 December 2014, 19:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

The new html2text version will not accept standard input, e.g:

$ echo '<p>hi</p>' | html2text
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/html2text", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('html2text==2014.9.25', 'console_scripts', 'html2text')()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/html2text/__init__.py", line 1083, in main
data = data.decode(encoding)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

If you put that input string in a file and pass it as an argument it works ok.

Package version: python-html2text 2014.9.25-3
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Closed by  Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Friday, 05 December 2014, 19:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  upstream bug fixed in new version python-html2text-2014.12.5-1
Comment by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 07:20 GMT
Does not seem to be a trouble with packaging. I'd suggest to report this upstream.
Comment by Mark Blakeney (bulletmark) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 10:32 GMT
That "'str' object has no attribute 'decode'" is a typical python 2 to 3 transition error. That's why I suspected it may be an Arch issue?
Comment by Mark Blakeney (bulletmark) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 12:21 GMT
The problem only occurs using python 3, it works fine with python 2. I installed the upstream git repo on a debian box and reproduced the problem. So I have raised upstream bug http://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/issues/45.

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