On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Edward K. Ream <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 1:40:35 PM UTC-5, Viktor Ransmayr wrote: > > Leo 5.3 was working fine for me for quite some time. >> >> Without any (known) changes Leo stopped working :-( >> > > Happily, I think we can say, the same thing just happened to me when I > installed Python 3.5.2 on Anaconda 4.2.0 on my Win 10 laptop. This was a > pretty clean install: I uninstalled lots of old pythons first. > > Rev 2e1137 works around this problem in an inelegant, but probably > completely safe way. > > Here are the relevant tracebacks >> > > [Snip] > > File "C:\Users\Viktor\Programs\leo53\leo\core\leoGlobals.py", line > 5910, in os_path_finalize > path = os.path.abspath(path) > File "C:\Python35\lib\ntpath.py", line 535, in abspath > path = _getfullpathname(path) > ValueError: _getfullpathname: embedded null character > > Googling the exact error message (ValueError: _getfullpathname: embedded > null character) yielded this page > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34004063/error-on-import-matplotlib-pyplot-on-anaconda3-for-windows-10-home-64-bit-pc>. > > > QQQ > > This is a bug in python, not matplotlib. The issue is that > winreg.EnumValue is not cutting string values at their length properly > for some reason, and strings will include null characters which > os.path.abspath is not able to process. > > QQQ > Searching on Python's bug tracker yields Issue 25778: winreg.EnumValue does not truncate strings correctly <https://bugs.python.org/issue25778> The last post for this issue was in January. That's not good enough, as I say here <http://bugs.python.org/issue25778?@ok_message=msg%20282280%20created%0Aissue%2025778%20nosy_count%2C%20nosy%2C%20messages%2C%20message_count%20edited%20ok&@template=item#msg282280> . EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
