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Description:

When importing gtkspellcheck in python I get an OperationalError exception coming from SQLite. The exception seems related to the file permissions for /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pylocales/locales.db, a file owned by this package.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 4.0.5-1

The exception traceback:

In [1]: from gtkspellcheck import SpellChecker
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OperationalError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-814239506a0a> in <module>()
----> 1 from gtkspellcheck import SpellChecker

/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gtkspellcheck/__init__.py in <module>()
50 '__desc_long__' : __desc_long__}
51
---> 52 from gtkspellcheck.spellcheck import (SpellChecker, NoDictionariesFound,
53 NoGtkBindingFound)

/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gtkspellcheck/spellcheck.py in <module>()
30 import sys
31
---> 32 from pylocales import code_to_name as _code_to_name
33 from pylocales import LanguageNotFound, CountryNotFound
34

/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pylocales/__init__.py in <module>()
46 '__desc_long__' : __desc_long__}
47
---> 48 from pylocales.locales import (Country, Language, LanguageNotFound,
49 CountryNotFound, code_to_name)

/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pylocales/locales.py in <module>()
61
62 # loading the database
---> 63 _database = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(__path__, 'locales.db'))
64
65 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

OperationalError: unable to open database file



Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a python interpreter as a non root user
2. Try importing from gtkspellcheck: from gtkspellcheck import SpellChecker


How to fix:

The problem seems related to the permissions for the file /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pylocales/locales.db. It's set to 600 (read only by root). Setting it to 644 fixed the exception for me.