jamu.py crashed in Program._init_() from MythTV.py

As far as I can tell, python should default to whatever C uses, and processing floats should "just work", however that never turns out as planned... I can work around this using 'locale.atof()' instead of 'float()', assuming python interprets your localizations settings properly.

Can you open python on the command line, run:

import locale
locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']

and see if it is set properly?

It lookes like you should be able to key off that.

http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/locale/index.html

(To add, you can do more experiments by setting LANG env variables)

Here goes python output:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('pl_PL', 'UTF8')
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
'.'
>>> locale.atof("100,1")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 292, in atof
    return func(string)
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 100,1

Seems it does not work. The decimal point used in Poland is ','.

Yet /usr/share/i18n/locales/pl_PL seems to be set correctly ...

Once again

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'pl_PL.UTF-8'
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
','
>>> locale.atof("100,1")
100.09999999999999

So after setting the locale it worked.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7346

Should set the defaults from the environment, and adjusts all conversion between floats and strings to use their respective counterpart functions in locale.

This bug was fixed in the package mythplugins - 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1

---------------
mythplugins (0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream checkout.
    - Fixes jamu crash with non english locales. (LP: #452790)
    - Needs to be updated to due new binary version of the main package.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:26:27 -0500

Hello guys,

I have the same behaviour, even with mythplugins - 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1 installed.

Anyway, the fix seems to be in the file /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/MythTV/MythTV.py, belonging to libmyth-python (also 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1), and my file has the fix, as referred to in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7346/pyth.locale.patch,
but it still does not work.

Any ideas?

root@mythbuntu-backend:~# echo $LANG
nb_NO.UTF-8

Any information I can provide?

Thanks!

Georg

I think this is the root of the problem:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'nb_NO.UTF-8'
>>> locale.getlocale()
('nb_NO', 'UTF8')
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
','
>>> locale.localeconv()['thousands_sep']
'\xc2\xa0'

It probably should have returned '.', I guess.

Regards,
Georg

Fixed temporarily by setting locale explicitly in /etc/cron.hourly/mythvideo:

Original:

#!/bin/sh
#Hourly massive update to ensure users see graphics coming in for upcoming recordings and current recordings
DIRECTORY=$(grep ^mythtv /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{print $6}')
if [ -f "$DIRECTORY/.mythtv/config.xml" ]; then
    su mythtv -c ""/usr/bin/python /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/jamu.py -MW >> '/var/log/mythtv/jamu.log'"
fi

Amended script:

#!/bin/sh
#Hourly massive update to ensure users see graphics coming in for upcoming recordings and current recordings
DIRECTORY=$(grep ^mythtv /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{print $6}')
if [ -f "$DIRECTORY/.mythtv/config.xml" ]; then
    su mythtv -c ""export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; /usr/bin/python /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/jamu.py -MW >> '/var/log/mythtv/jamu.log'"
fi

Georg

Sorry, I have and an extra quotation mark in the above post.
This is the correct one:

su mythtv -c "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; /usr/bin/python /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/jamu.py -MW >> '/var/log/mythtv/jamu.log'"

Georg