Basic question re: Editor plugins

[jackie_w]

It's huge, I don't want to waste any more of your time on this as I'm happy adding that one extra line immediately after saving the QDialog. It's a personal Editor plugin so no-one else is affected.

If I can reliably reproduce it in a small test plugin I'll post again.

In the meantime I think maybe there's a bigger problem in the Editor. I just updated my run-from-source copy. I can no longer run a regex search in the Editor. This is the error message:

calibre, version 2.63.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>RuntimeError</b>:invalid RE code

calibre 2.63* [64bit]  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 4, 3) && JSTest Plugin (2, 5, 2) && Kobo Utilities (2, 3, 2) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 81, 2) && EpubModBuild (0, 1, 1) && KePub Metadata Reader (2, 7, 1) && JS_Editor_Tools (0, 1, 4) && Epub2Kepub (0, 0, 7) && Wiki Reader (2, 1, 0) && Extract ISBN (2, 0, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 13) && Open With (1, 5, 9) && Fantastic Fiction (1, 1, 6) && ScrambleEbook (0, 0, 4) && Count Pages (1, 6, 9) && KePub Metadata Writer (2, 7, 1) && EpubSplit (2, 1, 2) && Modify ePub (1, 3, 13) && Copy Cover To Device (2, 0, 0) && DOC Input (1, 0, 1) && KoboBooks (1, 0, 0) && Obok DeDRM (6, 3, 6) && Goodreads (1, 1, 11) && KePub Output (2, 7, 1) && KePub Input (2, 7, 3) && KoboTouchCSSEdit (0, 1, 6) && Search The Internet (1, 7, 6)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\JS_git_devel\cal\src\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 913, in search
  File "C:\JS_git_devel\cal\src\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\search.py", line 1257, in run_search
  File "C:\JS_git_devel\cal\src\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\search.py", line 1174, in get_search_regex
  File "C:\JS_git_devel\cal\src\regex\__init__.py", line 345, in compile
  File "C:\JS_git_devel\cal\src\regex\__init__.py", line 594, in _compile
RuntimeError: invalid RE code

[jackie_w]

I figured out why my Editor search wasn't working. I hadn't realised I also needed to do a full upgrade to v2.63 as well as refreshing the run-from-source code. I'm pretty new at this stuff. Live and learn.

[eschwartz]

Ah, that would be because the regex module was updated, and the binary component from the old version was running with the *.py component from the new version. Mismatch.

Binary/python mismatches like that do not often occur, you can usually go many versions without updating the binary release.