Error about shreddit HOT 8 CLOSED

Is the error reproducible? As in it happens every time you try to run it?

I know Shreddit works with Python 2.7 but is there any chance you could perhaps make a Python 3 virtualenv and test from there?

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Yeah, reproducible. I run: source ./bin/activate and get the (Shreddit) prompt then ./run and get the same thing. That was on centos 7. I'll see if I can install the SCL for python 3 and try again.

I tried from a fedora machine (also 2.7) and got this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./shreddit.py", line 71, in
r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="shreddit/4.0")
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py", line 1207, in init
super(AuthenticatedReddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py", line 642, in init
super(OAuth2Reddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py", line 763, in init
super(UnauthenticatedReddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py", line 343, in init
self.http.headers['User-Agent'] = self.config.ua_string(user_agent)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py", line 208, in ua_string
info = platform.platform(True).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 56: ordinal not in range(128)

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What happens when you open up python and enter:

import platform platform.platform(True)

Whatever that returns is throwing a fit within praw's init.py.
Any luck with Python 3? It has less issues with Unicode (usually).

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:40 PM, lunchables [email protected]
wrote:

Yeah, reproducible. I run: source ./bin/activate and get the (Shreddit)
prompt then ./run and get the same thing. That was on centos 7. I'll see if
I can install the SCL for python 3 and try again.

I tried from a fedora machine (also 2.7) and got this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./shreddit.py", line 71, in
r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="shreddit/4.0")
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py",
line 1207, in init
super(AuthenticatedReddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py",
line 642, in init
super(OAuth2Reddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py",
line 763, in init
super(UnauthenticatedReddit, self).init(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py",
line 343, in init
self.http.headers['User-Agent'] = self.config.ua_string(user_agent)
File "/home/jon/Shreddit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/praw/init.py",
line 208, in ua_string
info = platform.platform(True).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 56:
ordinal not in range(128)

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import platform
platform.platform(True)
'Linux-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.1.1503-Core'

And, I think we found the problem:

import platform
platform.platform(True)
'Linux-3.14.27-100.fc19.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-19-Schr\xc3\xb6dinger\xe2\x80\x99s_Cat'

Yikes.

So I manually set the platform in init.py and at least I've got matching errors on both platforms now.

TypeError: cannot make memory view because object does not have the buffer interface

These are both python 2.7 though so not terribly surprising. Still messing around trying to get python3 setup from SCL.

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You could try editing shreddit.py:71 and changing the user_agent to
something else, "donkey" or something… It's down that trace that things are
going wrong there.
I doubt that'll work but it could be worth a shot.

I don't see anything in that platform.platform that couldn't be handled by
.encode('ascii', 'ignore').

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wrote:

import platform
platform.platform(True)
'Linux-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64-x86_64-with-centos-7.1.1503-Core'

Still messing around trying to get python3 setup from SCL.

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Apologies - I updated my last reply. I'm confusing this by running it in two places. I'm now getting the same buffer error on both platforms. The fedora machine was returning a very bizarre platform.

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Running python3 with virtualenv and it ran successfully (yay!). So this problem is specific to 2.7. Thanks for your help!

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I'm glad it's working 👍

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