Cannot open Preferences → Conversion → Common options → Page setup

[Ni Soros]

Cannot access this preferences window after an update to 3.9.0

calibre, version 3.9.0
ERREUR : Exception non gérée: <b>AttributeError</b>:'OptionRecommendation' object has no attribute 'expandtabs'

calibre 3.9 embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-4.4.0-97-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '4.4.0-97-generic', '#120-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 19 17:28:18 UTC 2017')
Python 2.7.12
Linux: ('debian', 'stretch/sid', '')
Interface language: fr
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/preferences/main.py", line 308, in show_plugin
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/preferences/conversion.py", line 98, in genesis
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/preferences/conversion.py", line 95, in widget_factory
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/look_and_feel.py", line 55, in __init__
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/__init__.py", line 94, in initialize_options
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/__init__.py", line 268, in setup_help
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/__init__.py", line 272, in setup_widget_help
  File "textwrap.py", line 325, in wrap
  File "textwrap.py", line 154, in _munge_whitespace
AttributeError: 'OptionRecommendation' object has no attribute 'expandtabs'

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I can't find version 3.9.0 listed in any Ubuntu release (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calibre), but it definitely seems like a bug so I've added a bug watch for upstream.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291014

 status invalid

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for calibre (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]