[reportlab-users] Possible String/Unicode bug in reportlab. Where do I report it?

[Roberto Alsina]

On Saturday 20 June 2009 19:47:40 Chris Bergstresser wrote:

> Hi all --

>

>   I just started using ReportLab (through the rst2pdf library) and so

> I'm not entirely sure this isn't a problem with rst2pdf, but it

> certainly looks like a ReportLab bug.  When it tries to draw tables, I

> get a:

>

> ValueError: Unknown color u'black'

>

>   The last line of the stack is:

>

> File

> "c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\reportlab-2.3-py2.6-win32.egg\reportlab\pdfg

>en\textobject.py", line 98, in setStrokeColor

>  raise ValueError('Unknown color %r' % aColor)

>

>   ... and a brief check of the code reveals this check above it:

>

>    elif type(aColor) is StringType:

>            self.setStrokeColor(toColor(aColor))

>

>  obviously, this fails because aColor is Unicode.  (For that matter,

> toColor only accepts binary strings as well). I cannot, for the life

> of me, fathom *why*.  At any rate, the fix is trivial, depending on

> the desired behavior--since I don't understand the rationale for

> refusing to accept Unicode in the first place, I'm hesitant to suggest

> a specific fix.


Since I intend to keep supporting RL 2.3, could you post a simple test case in 
rst2pdf's bug tracker? Maybe it *is* rst2pdf's fault, and if it isn't I need 
to create a workaround anyway :-) 

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