[reportlab-users] Fwd: Bug in platypus paragraph.py

[pnmoslo at gmail.com]

Thanks for the quick response -- good to know it's been fixed, and 
apologies for not testing with the latest version. 

The Ubuntu version seems to be from February -- I suppose they'll catch up 
sometime, and in the meantime I've just modified the file in question (this 
is on a production server running stuff that's been there for years where 
it's much more convenient to just use the Ubuntu updates -- it that respect 
it's rather strange that this problem hasn't turned up previously).

Regards,

Paul Mothersdill

On Monday, 26 May 2014 11:15:45 UTC+2, Andy Robinson wrote:
>
> Paul, thanks for this.  Our latest source code already has this, so it 
> looks like we fixed it after the 14.4 cutoff was made 
>
> class _SplitText(unicodeT): 
>     pass 
>
> (The 'unicodeT' is an indirection to do with python 2-and-3 compatibility) 
>
>
> I don't know how often the Ubuntu packagers pick up new versions but 
> there have been a whole lot of subtle improvements since mid-Feb when 
> the cutoff for 14.4 happened.  in the meantime, hopefully you can grab 
> a fresher version with 'pip install reportlab' ?  Most active python 
> users seem to prefer to use Python's packaging tools rather than 
> Ubuntu's ones. 
>
> - Andy 
>
>
> On 26 May 2014 10:04, Paul Mothersdill <pa... at nlhas.no <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Sorry -- previous mail was sent prematurely. 
> > 
> > There's a helper class in paragraph.py : 
> > 
> > class _SplitText(str): 
> >    pass 
> > 
> > The str here should surely be unicode? The whole programming logic is 
> that 
> > it should be a unicode object -- and it fails (of course) if the 
> character 
> > is outside the ascii range. 
> > 
> > I've done limited testing an found that changing this to 
> > 
> >  class _SplitText(unicode): 
> >    pass 
> > solves the problems I've been experiencing. 
> > 
> > Reportlab open source as found in the standard Ubuntu 14.4 server 
> > repositories. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Subject: Bug in platypus paragraph.py 
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> > 
> > 
> > There's a helper class in paragraph.py : 
> > 
> > class _SplitText(unicode): 
> > pass 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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