Beta testing libprs500's new GUI

[kovidgoyal]

python2.5

[iacchi]

Don't know if you remember the error I get, here it is:

time data did not match format: data=Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:49:15 GMT fmt=%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/iacopo/libprs500/src/libprs500/gui2/library.py", line 521, in sort
    self.map.sort(cmp=fcmp, reverse=descending)
  File "/home/iacopo/libprs500/src/libprs500/gui2/library.py", line 510, in datecmp
    x = self.db[x].datetime
  File "/home/iacopo/libprs500/src/libprs500/devices/prs500/books.py", line 46, in __get__
    self.formatter else obj.elem.getAttribute(self.attr).strip()
  File "/home/iacopo/libprs500/src/libprs500/devices/prs500/books.py", line 67, in 
    formatter=lambda x:  time.strptime(x.strip(), "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"),
  File "_strptime.py", line 330, in strptime
    (data_string, format))
ValueError: time data did not match format:  data=Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:49:15 GMT  fmt=%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z

May I know the source of that "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:49:15 GMT"? Where it takes the time from? And do you have an idea of why that date? (the date is my first install of libprs500 on my linuxbox)

[kovidgoyal]

That date comes from one of the entries in main.xml on your device. THe really strange thing about that error (the reason I can't figure it out) is that it says that the fmt doesn't match the fmt string, but it does. You can check that here http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

The only thing I can think of is some sort of string encoding issue.

[kovidgoyal]

Ah I get it maybe your locale's abbreviated weekday name is not Fri.

[iacchi]

In fact it's Ven, and Aug is Ago. What can we do? Or I do, at least? And why on Windows I don't have this problem? Even Windows is localized!

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm I need to figure out how to get the time module to use the english locale in python

[kovidgoyal]

try some of the functions from the locale module

[kovidgoyal]

incidentally what is your locale?

[iacchi]

italian

[kovidgoyal]

I've committed a fix to svn, test it and let me know.

[iacchi]

It works! You're fantastic! Let's go with 0.4.9 :P

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by iacchi

It works! You're fantastic! Let's go with 0.4.9 :P

Let's not and say we go with 0.4.10 instead.

[gczobel]

I have two problems with the version 0.4.10
1) Unhandled exception
I have a book in the reader with the title "Señales de Lluvia".
(the third letter is a spanish letter)
double click on the book to change the title. Without change anything I click on another book. An exception is raised with text

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "libprs500\gui2\library.pyo", line 636, in setData
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\books.pyo", line 78, in fset
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

2) Click on a book for ex: "1984" ( i see the number in bold in the left margin)
Click on the View button.
An error message with the text "No book selected" is showed

[kovidgoyal]

both 1) and 2) will be fixed in next release.

[beartard]

By the way, kovid, we're a few days away from the next release of Ubuntu. I've been running the Gutsy testing version for a while now and libprs500 is perfect so far. Latest updates give me a warning about pyqt being 4.3 where 4.3.1 is required. I still find no problems with the working of the software.