> On 24 Apr 2020, at 10:18 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > > On 4/24/20 6:32 PM, Thomas Coradeschi via Mailman-Developers wrote: >> >> I have a test list (called ’test’) and can see that >> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test/2020-April.txt and >> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test.mbox/test.mbox have both been created >> and have messages being written to them, but the html archive pages are not >> being built. > [...] > > This looks like a manifestation of an issue we've seen before. There are > multiple threads on this issue in the archive of the > mailman-us...@python.org list The bulk of it is at > <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-March/thread.html> > in threads with > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception > > The bottom line is in > <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-March/084280.html>. We > could never figure out where it was coming from, but the import > > from string import lowercase > > in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py was returning a string > that contained many accented characters in addition to the 26 letters > a-z, namely the iso-8859-1 encoding of > > 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzµßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ' > > This is some packaging quirk in (I think) Debian's Python. > > If you follow all through the threads, you'll see several suggested > patches for diagnosis and avoidance, and there is also a thread at > <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-May/084432.html>. > > All that notwithstanding, I think this is the best patch for > avoiding/fixing the issue. > > === modified file 'Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py' > --- Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py 2018-05-03 21:23:47 +0000 > +++ Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py 2020-04-25 02:13:46 +0000 > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ > else: > # Mixed case; assume that small parts of the last name will be > # in lowercase, and check them against the list. > - while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or > + while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase[:26] or > L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts): > i = i - 1 > author = SPACE.join(L[-1:] + L[i:-1]) + ', ' + SPACE.join(L[:i])
Bingo - thanks for the tip, Mark. I need to become more facile in using the search engines:-) Any particular reason this hasn’t been flowed into the existing mailman distribution? Regards, — Tom Coradeschi tjc...@icloud.com _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
