[reportlab-users] Undeclared dependency on chardet

[Robin Becker]

Hi Matt,

sorry to delay my reply, this just got lost in my spam folder.

I think you are right and both para.py and rparsexml have been left behind.

I will add chardet as a dependency in the next micro release, 4.0.8.

I will definitely remove the breakpoint and some prints from smartdecode in rparsexml.


On 09/11/2023 13:18, Matt Folwell wrote:
> reportlab/lib/rparsexml.py contains a smartDecode class, which tries to import chardet at runtime, but reportlab doesn't 
> declare a dependency on chardet, so that gives an error.
> 
> Also smartDecode contains what look suspiciously like debugging print() calls.
> 
> It first appeared in Reportlab 3.6.12
> 
> rparsexml.py is only used by platypus/para.py and I realise para.py doesn't get a lot of attention, but it would be nice 
> if it worked in a default installation, either by declaring the dependency, or reverting rparsexml.py to a version that 
> didn't try to guess at an encoding.
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