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Re: [xml2rfc] Unable to run xml2rfc --help

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 28 December 2020 18:14 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Unable to run xml2rfc --help
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Can only guess, but probably your locale isn’t en_US.UTF-8 which you may want to fix. 

Sent from mobile, sorry for terse

> On 28. Dec 2020, at 16:49, Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, Roger Price wrote:
> 
>> I downloaded xml2rfc onto a Debian Stretch machine and ran the command
>> 
>> xml2rfc --help
>> 
>> The result was
>> ...
>> File "/usr/lib/python3.5/sre_parse.py", line 575, in _parse
>>   raise source.error(msg, len(this) + 1 + len(that))
>> sre_constants.error: bad character range ”-“ at position 7
> 
> I went back to this problem.  xml2rfc --help still crashes, so I tried xml2rfc -h.  That worked, so I went back to xml2rfc --help which then worked correctly.
> 
> I then tried xml2rfc draft-davies-template-bare-07.xml : Python crashes with the same error message.  I tried xml2rfc --debug draft-davies-template-bare-07.xml and that worked. I tried xml2rfc --text draft-davies-template-bare-07.xml and Python crashed, so I tried xml2rfc draft-davies-template-bare-07.xml --text and that worked.
> 
> I repeated xml2rfc draft-davies-template-bare-07.xml --text and this time Python crashed with the usual error message.
> 
> It looks as if xml2rfc is relying on some work area which it assumes has some initial value, but in practice has a random value.
> 
> I get the same randomness with Python 3.5.3 and Python 3.8.1. Command uname -a reports Linux maria 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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