pastebinit does not work with python3 (modifications suggested)

[François Boulogne]

Hi,

I am the archlinux packager for your application. Archlinux switched to python3 some days ago. I patched for archlinux your software in order to use python2 instead python3 (default).

I tried to use python3 and some errors appeared.
I corrected print calls, an exception and urllib usage.

I have again an error with configobj which has been patched on archlinux to be compatible with python3. i ignore for the moment where the error comes from.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit3", line 55, in preloadPastebins
    bininstance = configobj.ConfigObj(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1245, in __init__
    self._load(infile, configspec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1311, in _load
    if (not line) or (line[-1] not in ('\r', '\n', '\r\n')):
TypeError: 'int' object is not subscriptable

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit3", line 261, in <module>
    pastebind = preloadPastebins() #get the config from /etc/pastebin.d/
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit3", line 56, in preloadPastebins
    except(configobj.ConfigObjError, e):
NameError: global name 'e' is not defined

I will investigate more as soon as I have enough time. For the moment, I can give you a patch with my corrections.
I hope it could help.

Regards.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Hi,

I just ran 2to3 on pastebinit again to check what would need to be updated to get it running on python 3.2.
Sadly the needed changes break compatibility with python < 3.0 so it's not really an option for now.

Once python 3 is shipped by default on most distros, I'll be happy to convert pastebinit and change the interpreter accordingly.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Still no configobj in Debian/Ubuntu so not converting to python3 just yet ... maybe next year.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

configobj doesn't support python3 upstream yet

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Ported pastebinit to use configparser and made the code work with python2 and python3 (tested with 2.7 and 3.2).