recent updates caused it to stop working

[Scott Zawalski]

Binary package hint: adesklets

Try to load any desklets:

cowbud@anema ~/.desklets$ ./yab.py
Do you want to (r)egister this desklet or to (t)est it? t
Now testing...
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If you do not see anything (or just an initial flicker
in the top left corner of your screen), try `--help',
and see the FAQ: `info adesklets'.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./yab.py", line 598, in ?
    Events(dirname(__file__)).pause()
  File "./yab.py", line 190, in __init__
    adesklets.Events_handler.__init__(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets/events_handler.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.ready()
  File "./yab.py", line 203, in ready
    join(self.basedir,'config.txt'))
  File "./yab.py", line 171, in __init__
    adesklets.ConfigFile.__init__(self,id,filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets/configfile.py", line 162, in __init__
    self._load_and_save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets/configfile.py", line 205, in _load_and_save
    all= ConfigImport.load(buf[:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets/configfile.py", line 41, in __call__
    return dict(self._group(
  File "compiler/transformer.py", line 52, in parse
  File "compiler/transformer.py", line 129, in parsesuite
TypeError: suite() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str
cowbud@anema ~/.desklets$

[Scott Zawalski (cowbud)]

This bug is due to configuration error. I ended up blowing away my config.txt and redesigning my adesklets layout and it went away.