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medianmajik

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Registered: 2010-05-27

Posts: 53

t (minimalist console task list) not working with python3

Lifehacker posted about this link to t, which is exactly the kind of python scripted task list I want to run in Arch.  I grabbed it off his site, but have run into troubles when running it.  I e-mailed him a couple times about the problem, but feel ready to post it on here and get some feedback. 

-the e-mails-
print p + task['text']
         ^

I tried replacing p with the full string only to get the same error.
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do you happen to be using Arch Linux?  Arch recently make Python
3 the default system Python, and t isn't written for Python 3 (the print
statement is one of the things that has changed).

If so, you should be able to switch the first line of the script to:

   #!/usr/bin/env python2

and that should make it use Python 2.x.
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Yes, I am on Arch.  Thanks for the reply!  I changed the first line of t.py to use python2 and now get some new errors.

$t workplease
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 289, in <module>
    _main()
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 278, in _main
    td.write(options.delete)
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 219, in write
    with open(path, 'w') as tfile:
IOError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/stopbot/tasks/today'

My bash alias is
alias t='python $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/t/t.py --task-dir ~/tasks --list today'

It does not exist.  I mapped (and created) tasks directory to ~/documents/tasks.  Should I try creating the actual list txt files as well (today).  I'm executing

alias t='python $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/t/t.py --task-dir ~/documents/tasks --list today'

Output is the same old error:
$ t work
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 208
    print p + task['text']

If I change the alias within bashrc to
alias t='python2 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/t/t.py --task-dir ~/documents/tasks --list today'

$ t work
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 289, in <module>
    _main()
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 278, in _main
    td.write(options.delete)
  File "/home/stopbot/.config/t/t.py", line 219, in write
    with open(path, 'w') as tfile:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/stopbot/documents/tasks/today'

So, perhaps I need to create the actual txt file for the list I want to use within the task directory?
Note, creating a txt file called today in the task directory did not help.

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rickdg

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From: The Lowlands

Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 24

Re: t (minimalist console task list) not working with python3

kinhodder has created an excellent minimalist todo list with python. Works like a charm.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115747

Last edited by rickdg (2011-03-29 08:07:37)