** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python-apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774843 Title: apport python exception handler messes up python3.7 Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: it seems apport installs an exception hook whenever running python3. This hook is apparently installed for python3.7 too. This exception handler has a dependency on apt_pkg, which is a binary that is not compatible with python3.7 it seems (you can't import it, see below) As a result, whenever I run a python3.7 script and run into an exception (which happens often when writing code), I get an additional exception in the exception handler + a copy of the original exception, so three stacktraces in total. A solution would be to only install the exception hook for the system python i.e. python3.6 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 apport: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 python-apt: 1.6.0 python3.7: 3.7.0~b3-1 Demo with a trivial error: $ python3 -c 'print hello' File "<string>", line 1 print hello ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)? $ python3.7 -c 'print hello' File "<string>", line 1 print hello ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)? Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module> from apport.report import Report File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module> import apport.fileutils File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module> from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 24, in <module> import apt File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in <module> import apt_pkg ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg' Original exception was: File "<string>", line 1 print hello ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(hello)? Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.excepthook <function apport_excepthook at 0x7fdf2b99a620> >>> import apt_pkg >>> apt_pkg.__file__ '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_pkg.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' >>> Python 3.7.0b3 (default, Mar 30 2018, 04:35:22) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.excepthook <function apport_excepthook at 0x7f29a6eebea0> >> import apt_pkg Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1774843/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp