[mythtv-users] find_orphans.py

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> The find_orphans script, like all the scripts in the wiki, is supposed
>> >> to be downloaded with another scrip mythwikiscripts. In ubuntu
>> >> mythwikiscripts is packaged in libmyth-python.
>> >
>> > Does mythwikiscripts give any sort of feedback during the install?
>> > I've run it and hit 32 for the orphans script, but it just asks me
>> > what script I want to install again. If it's installing it, I can't
>> > find it.
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>> I think it dumps it in the local directory, I usually cd to ~/bin
>> before i run it.
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>> Strangely it seems broken, gives me the list of files but doesn't seem
>> to download anything.
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>> Sorry for the noise, looks like its back to copy/paste from the wiki.
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> Nick,
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>  Thanks just the same for the help.
>
> I tried a fresh copy of the script copied from the wiki on my mac mini
> rather than on my windows machine, and I gave it a different name.  It now
> runs, but gives me an error at a different stage:
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> josh at Myth-Backend:/store$ ./findzem.py
>   File "./findzem.py", line 26
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file ./findzem.py on line 26, but
> no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> details
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> So it's progress, but not yet success.  I think I saw a thread about
> something like this in my searches earlier today, so I'll look there, but in
> the mean time, this may jog someones mind.

this is the sort of problem (strange character encoding/inclusion when
cutting and pasting from the web page) that the mythwikiscripts is
supposed to avoid.

I can email you my find_orphans.py if you like - I'll do it off list.

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> Thanks!
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