[reportlab-users] Unable to install with python 2.7.3

Moretti Sébastien sebastien.moretti at unil.ch
Thu Nov 29 07:45:25 EST 2012


Hi

I am new to reportlab and try to install it from source on python 2.7.3
Linux.

Build and install steps work fine but I experience errors with tests.
All errors are XML related (I joined part of the output)

All listed requirements are there, so I don't see what is missing.
Thanks


.....................E............E...........................E............................................................E...........Failed
to import renderPM.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "graphdocpy.py", line 982, in <module>
main()
File "graphdocpy.py", line 952, in main documentPackage0(nameOrPath,
builder, options)
File "graphdocpy.py", line 895, in documentPackage0
os.path.walk(path, _packageWalkCallback, (builder, opts))
File "/software/lib64/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk
walk(name, func, arg)
File "/software/lib64/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 229, in walk
func(arg, top, names)
File "graphdocpy.py", line 862, in _packageWalkCallback
documentModule0(f, builder)
File "graphdocpy.py", line 836, in documentModule0
builder.write(s)
File "./docpy.py", line 510, in write
self.skeleton.walk(self)
File "./docpy.py", line 433, in walk
f.beginClass(k, cDoc, bases)
File "graphdocpy.py", line 284, in beginClass
self.beginAttributes(aClass)
File "graphdocpy.py", line 321, in beginAttributes
"<b>%s</b> %s" % (name, desc), self.bt))
File
"/builddir/build/BUILD/reportlab-2.6/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 919, in __init__
self._setup(text, style, bulletText or
getattr(style,'bulletText',None), frags, cleanBlockQuotedText)
File
"/builddir/build/BUILD/reportlab-2.6/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 937, in _setup
% (_parser.errors[0],text[:min(30,len(text))]))
ValueError: xml parser error (bogus < or &) in paragraph beginning
'<b>gridStrokeLineCap</b> Grid '
.............................................E.................E........
======================================================================
ERROR: test0 (test_platypus_index.IndexTestCase)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/builddir/build/BUILD/reportlab-2.6/tests/test_platypus_index.py", line
108, in test0
para = Paragraph(txt, makeBodyStyle())
File
"/builddir/build/BUILD/reportlab-2.6/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 919, in __init__
self._setup(text, style, bulletText or
getattr(style,'bulletText',None), frags, cleanBlockQuotedText)
File
"/builddir/build/BUILD/reportlab-2.6/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 937, in _setup
% (_parser.errors[0],text[:min(30,len(text))]))
ValueError: xml parser error (; missing after entity/char reference) in
paragraph beginning
'Marks &amp; Spencer - purveyor'
======================================================================


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Sébastien Moretti



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