[mythtv-users] Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/02/2021 00:37, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Peter,
> 
> Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 7:08:16 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>> Test it by running these
> 
>> Display help page
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -h
> 
>> Display series data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M Monk
> 
>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695
>> "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
> 
>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N Monk
>> "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
> 
>> Run the same tests for tvmaze.py
> 
>> Let me know if this works.
> 
>> Note: You need to install them on all frontends and backend.
> 
>> Peter
> 
> With tmdb3tv I encounter a more complex issue that I as jet do not
> fully understand. I was missing: https://pypi.org/project/future/0.6.0/
> that next after installing gave the following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./tmdb3tv.py", line 159, in <module>
>      sys.exit(main("television",'tmdb3tv.py'))
>    File "./tmdb3tv.py", line 79, in main
>      from MythTV.tmdb3.lookup import timeouthandler
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
>      from .tmdb_api import Configuration, searchMovie, searchMovieWithYear, \
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/tmdb_api.py", line 69, in <module>
>      from .request import set_key, Request
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/request.py", line 12, in <module>
>      from .cache import Cache
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/cache.py", line 13, in <module>
>      from .cache_engine import Engines
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/cache_engine.py", line 47, in <module>
>      class CacheEngine(with_metaclass(CacheEngineType, object)):
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/future-0.6.0-py2.7.egg/future/utils/__init__.py", line 125, in with_metaclass
>      return metaclass('temporary_class', None, {})
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/future-0.6.0-py2.7.egg/future/utils/__init__.py", line 123, in __new__
>      return type.__new__(cls, name, (), d)
> TypeError: type() argument 1 must be string, not unicode

I don't speak python that much, but should the first argument be in single quotes, not double? It is 
a literal, so in theory it shouldn't matter which is used, but I suspect that in this case double 
quotes would be taken as unicode rather than character.

-- 

Mike Perkins