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chm2pdf package

chm2pdf crashed if BeautifulSoup is used but not installed

Bug #630520 reported by Chen Liang on 2010-09-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	chm2pdf (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: chm2pdf

I was converting, here is what I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 1108, in <module>
    main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 1102, in main
    convert_to_pdf(cfile, filename, outputfilename, options)
  File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 387, in convert_to_pdf
    correct_file(re.sub('\\\\ ', ' ', page_filename), htmlout_filename, html_list, objective_urls, options)
  File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 137, in correct_file
    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag
ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: chm2pdf 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 5 00:27:33 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/chm2pdf
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/chm2pdf --book --beautifulsoup Hacking\ Exposed,\ 5th\ Edition.chm
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_IE.utf8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/chm2pdf', '--book', '--beautifulsoup', 'Hacking Exposed, 5th Edition.chm']
SourcePackage: chm2pdf
Title: chm2pdf crashed with ImportError in correct_file()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Chen Liang (chenliang) wrote on 2010-09-04:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (776 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (518 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2010-09-06

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

Chen Liang (chenliang) on 2011-03-20

visibility:

private → public

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Reto Knaak (reto-knaak) wrote on 2011-11-16:

Do you get the same if the filename contains no spaces?

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Reto Knaak (reto-knaak) wrote on 2011-11-21:

You used the --beautifulsoup option but you didn't install beautifulsoup which is optional maybe?

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Reto Knaak (reto-knaak) wrote on 2011-11-23:

Check if beautifulsoup is installed before importing it! Edit (690 bytes, text/plain)

Beautifulsoup is an optional package, if you don'use it, no need to install it.
If you install chm2pdf you don't get beautifulsoup automatically.

If the --beautifulsoup option is passed, CHM2PDF executes
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag
and this will rise an exception.

I added the code to intercept this exception generating some help
+ try:
+ from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+ except Exception, e:
+ print
+ print '### An error occured importing soup ', e
+ print '### Check if beautifulsoup is installed or remove --beautifulsoup from the command line'
+ sys.exit()

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2011-11-24:

The attachment "Check if beautifulsoup is installed before importing it!" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags:

added: patch

Reto Knaak (reto-knaak) on 2011-11-24