Error Adding Plugin

[modkindle]

My last question of the night I promise!

I am running Calibre 0.6.51

I am attempting to add a plugin. I have tried a couple different versions of the source code and I am zipping it using 7-Zip.

This is the error I get.

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeDecodeError</b>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x88 in position 11: unexpected code byte

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\config\__init__.py", line 531, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 271, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 65, in load_plugin
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x88 in position 11: unexpected code byte

[kovidgoyal]

Make sure your plugin .py file contains only ASCII

[junkml]

Kovid,

Can you suggest a good editing program for windows? I've created and run plugins before, but for some reason when I edited one today, I started getting the same type of utf-8 error.

I was hoping you might know of a good editor for python files for windows. What I've been using doesn't seem to work anymore.

xfeTraceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\debug.py", line 120, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\debug.py", line 80, in add_simple_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 457, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 271, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 65, in load_plugin
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaf in position 12: unexpect
ed code byte

[kovidgoyal]

notepad++ should do the trick

[junkml]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

notepad++ should do the trick

Hmm. Is there a setting I'm missing then? That's what I used in the past, and what I'm currently using.

Weird.

[kovidgoyal]

Dunno, I don't really use windows, so I have only the most rudimentary familiarity with notepad++

[chaley]

I have used vim with success. I currently use eclipse with pydev, along with anyedit to clean up lines when writing. That being said, I have not tried to write strings with non-latin characters, so your mileage might vary.

[kovidgoyal]

Note that in a python file you can always escape non ascii characters in strings. I would recommend doing that, as it's the most portable, provided you dont have too many such characters.

[junkml]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Note that in a python file you can always escape non ascii characters in strings. I would recommend doing that, as it's the most portable, provided you dont have too many such characters.

Thanks for the help, I'll just have to keep seeing what I can find. I'm not using non-ascii characters, and I barely changed the script from what it was before. I even changed it back and tried to use it, and I get the error above.

Thanks for trying to help, though.

[junkml]

I've stripped this down to where it's just doing a "print" statement, so I can see what's happening when I use calibre on the command line.

Maybe someone could take a look and see what the heck I've screwed up. I'm kind of frustrated, since this file was working perfectly until I edited it today.

When I use calibre-debug --add-simple-plugin epub_plugin.zip, I get:
(most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\debug.py", line 120, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\debug.py", line 80, in add_simple_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 457, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 271, in add_plugin
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 65, in load_plugin
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaf in position 12: unexpect
ed code byte

[kovidgoyal]

I was able to add that plugin to calibre and I don't see the byte 0xaf anywhere in the .py file

Are you sure you're adding the correct file?

[junkml]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I was able to add that plugin to calibre and I don't see the byte 0xaf anywhere in the .py file

Are you sure you're adding the correct file?

That's aggravating. I'm pretty sure I'm adding the right .zip file, as the datetime stamp matched what I had just built.

I'll have to play with it more tomorrow.

[DokaMax]

You can try this http://mmm-experts.com/download/PyScripter-setup.exe PyScripter for Windows Py editig. I was try add your plugin and have no error.

[kovidgoyal]

Ah, now I see it, if you're using --add-simple-plugin then you pass it the path to the .py file not the zip file (the idea is that it makes it easy to add plugins that have only a single py file)

If you want to add the zip file use

calibre-customize --add path to zip file

[junkml]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Ah, now I see it, if you're using --add-simple-plugin then you pass it the path to the .py file not the zip file (the idea is that it makes it easy to add plugins that have only a single py file)

If you want to add the zip file use

calibre-customize --add path to zip file

Thanks Kovid.

I went through this morning and re-installed notepad++ and everything seems to be working again.