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Lindsey Smith (lindsey-smith) wrote : Re: [Bug 244953] [NEW] r2e bails out with TypeError

Peter,

Hmm. My main Linux box also runs Hardy, but I don't use the Ubuntu
package for rss2email personally. Can I enlist your help in finding
the steps to reproduce this?

regards,
Lindsey Smith

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Peter Lewis <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: rss2email
>
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading to Hardy, I get this behaviour:
>
> $ r2e list
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 731, in <module>
> elif action == "list": list()
> File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 672, in list
> feeds, feedfileObject = load(lock=0)
> File "/usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py", line 413, in load
> feeds = pickle.load(feedfileObject)
> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
>
> And the same if I try to run r2e with any other options. I've tried it
> with both python 2.4 and 2.5.
>
> Some more info:
>
> $ aptitude show rss2email
> Package: rss2email
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: yes
> Version: 1:2.61-1
>
> $ aptitude show python-feedparser
> Package: python-feedparser
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 4.1-10
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> ** Affects: rss2email (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> r2e bails out with TypeError
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244953
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