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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Stephen,

Thursday, February 25, 2021, 3:12:21 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:40:16 +0000, you wrote:

>>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.

> The current version of the "future" package is 0.18.2.  As this
> exception is happening in the future package, my guess is that 0.6.0
> is way too old and is incompatible with modern Python 3 code
> somewhere.  Unicode versus string problems are common with converting
> Python 2 to Python 3 - this is one major area where they are
> incompatible with each other.
> _______________________________________________

Thanks, I googled and got that version. But a searching directly on
pypi.org gave me the right version:
https://pypi.org/project/future/

and now it works OK.

In the mean time I tried installing the complete recent bindings on
python3 next to the old one on python2. I get:
ERROR: <class 'MythTV.exception.MythError'> : No viable database module found

I guess mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/setup.py from git does not
install the complete bindings? Or are other python modules missing?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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