For a long time I have been frustrated by the fact that Supybot’s RSS plugin only supported RSS feeds, and not ATOM as well, as some of my friends’ blogs only offer the ATOM format. I did some Googling, and discovered a workaround involving substituting feedparser for rssparser in the plugin.py. However, I now have a new error, which there is a fair bit of mention about on the internet, but little in the way of solutions. It seems to affect anything python-related (MoinMoin, Supybot, Plone, etc.), and involves the translation of ASCII and UTF-8 character encodings. As I’m not very knowledgeable in this area, I would very much appreciated whatever information and/or fixes you can offer. Here’s my log output:
INFO 2007-08-20T01:52:19 rss planetubuntu called by
“tonyyarusso!n=anthony@ubuntu/member/tonyyarusso”.
ERROR 2007-08-20T01:52:19 Uncaught exception in [’rss’, ‘planetubuntu’].
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/callbacks.py”, line 1170, in _callCommand
self.callCommand(command, irc, msg, *args, **kwargs)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/utils/python.py”, line 62, in g
f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/callbacks.py”, line 1156, in callCommand
method(irc, msg, *args, **kwargs)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/plugins/RSS/plugin.py”, line 294, in f
self.rss(irc, msg, args)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/commands.py”, line 906, in newf
f(self, irc, msg, args, *state.args, **state.kwargs)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/plugins/RSS/plugin.py”, line 383, in rss
headlines = self.buildHeadlines(headlines, channel, ’showLinks’)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/plugins/RSS/plugin.py”, line 142, in buildHeadlines
newheadlines.append(format(’%s %u’, *headline))
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/supybot/utils/str.py”, line 430, in format
return _formatRe.sub(sub, s)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe2 in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
ERROR 2007-08-20T01:52:19 Exception id: 0xe9e69
(Note: this is using http://planet.ubuntu.com/rss20.xml as the feed URL, and worked with the old rssparser. A number of other feeds are affected as well, including the individual site feeds of Hobbsee, ryanakca, johnc4510, jnthnjng, and LaserJock.)