[mythtv-users] tmdb3 python bindings: how best to report bugs

[Paul Harrison]

On 05/05/2021 14:07, Peter Bennett wrote:

>
> On 5/5/21 2:04 AM, Doug Scoular (dscoular) via mythtv-users wrote:
>> Hi, If you don't have a g
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/b2ed400037de11c7e5546381e60cc9de7b1e15eb/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/lookup.py#L138 
>>
>> MythTV/tmdb3/lookup.py, line 138:
>>      if loc_posters[0].language != locale_language \
>>                      and locale_language != system_language:
>>
>>     I guess the fix would be to change MythTV/tmdb3/lookup.py, line 
>> 138 to:
>>
>>      if len(loc_posters) and loc_posters[0].language != 
>> locale_language \
>>                      and locale_language != system_language:
>>
>>     To repeat the issue I can run the following:
>>
>> # /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -l en -a 
>> AU -D 323614
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py", line 150, in 
>> <module>
>>      sys.exit(main("movie",'tmdb3.py'))
>>    File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py", line 127, in main
>>      xml = buildSingle(args[0], opts)
>>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/lookup.py", line 
>> 138, in buildSingle
>>      if loc_posters[0].language != locale_language \
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>>
>>     This finds the related documentary but it has no associated 
>> movie.posters and this causes loc_posters to be assigned an empty 
>> list leading to the IndexError.
>>
>>     I wasn't sure how best to report this, the mythtv.org site links 
>> to code.mythtv.org/trac while github has its own issues page 
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues.
>>
>>     I was just wondering how best to make developers aware of the 
>> problem and my suggested fix?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Doug
>> -- 
>> "The big print giveth and the small print taketh away."
>>
>>
> The github issues page is the correct place now. We are no longer 
> using trac for new issues.
>

While that is always the preferred method we do understand not everyone 
has or wants a github login, especially now it's owned by MicroSoft ! :) 
) You can always drop a message to the mythtv-dev mailing list as most 
devs do still keep track of that list since it's fairly on topic and low 
traffic.


Paul H.