[reportlab-users] issue moving from 3.4.0 to latest

[James PK]

 > I'm upgrading reportlab from 3.4.0 to 3.5.x issue with _do_post_text()

You have upgraded reportlab, I assume that your Python version is still 
the same.

Is the 'issue' an exception or that the output looks different in 3.5.x?


 > which is returning a string of zero length ('') and not a number.
 > I can fix the issue by changing the lw value to 0 (zero).

 From the repository it looks like _usCon() (added in commit in March 
2018) and it does look like its intention is to return a number.


Do you have a slimmed down source file your could email for testing 
purposes?

James



On 06/09/2019 03:13, johnf wrote:
> 
>   Hi everyone,
> 
> 
>   I'm upgrading reportlab from 3.4.0 to 3.5.x issue with _do_post_text()
> 
> I'm upgrading reportlab from 3.4.0 to 3.5.x and there is a change in 
> paragraph.py -> _do_post_text(). In that method there is a line of code:
> 
> lw = _isConv(w,values,default=tx._defaultLineWidth)
> 
> which is returning a string of zero length ('') and not a number. I can 
> fix the issue by changing the lw value to 0 (zero).
> 
> But I wonder where I should be looking for the root of the issue???? Is 
> it in my rxml file. The file print fine with reportlab 3.4.0.
> 
> 
> Johnf
> 
> 
> 
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