NY Times Recipe in Calibre 6.36 Fails

[keyrunner]

For the past week the NY Times subscription recipe for the NY Times fails. Anyone have any ideas whether this is part of the new NY Times pay wall experiment (not expected to be implemented until 2011) or something is wrong with the recipe?

The error I get is (with password and username blanked out and they are correct):

Fetch news from The New York Times (subscription)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'dont_justify': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': '(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': '(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x74d77b0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'lrf': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x74d7990>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'password': 'XXXXXX',
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'username': 'XXXXX',
'verbose': 2}
Python function terminated unexpectedly: decode() argument 1 must be string, not instancemethod
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 147, in main
return run_entry_point()
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
return getattr(pmod, func)()
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 745, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/input.py", line 92, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 618, in download
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 735, in build_index
File "/var/folders/gO/gOE9CFX92RWvTU+8ZQp+jU+++TM/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.36_PGWlOV_recipes/recipe0.py", line 61, in parse_index
soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html')
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 432, in index_to_soup
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1435, in __init__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1055, in __init__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1084, in _feed
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 431, in <lambda>
File "site-packages/calibre/__init__.py", line 425, in entity_to_unicode
TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not instancemethod

[kovidgoyal]

Will be fixed in next release.