Robin Becker wrote: > On 01/05/2015 13:15, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: >> >> >> Best thing to do is to ask the user to post the complete traceback. >> You might need to use "import os.path" but normally I would expect >> that not to be an issue. > > > >> jamesbynd said: >> >> here's a traceback: >> >> ``` >> #!python >> >> ImportError: No module named pwd >> (12 additional frame(s) were not displayed) >> ... >> File >> "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015- eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/xhtml2pdf/context.py", >> line 5, in <module> >> from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle >> File >> "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015- eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/lib/styles.py", >> line 28, in <module> >> from reportlab.rl_config import canvas_basefontname as _baseFontName, >> baseUnderlineProportion as _baseUnderlineProportion >> File >> "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015- eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/rl_config.py", >> line 131, in <mod >> ule> >> _startUp() >> File >> "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015- eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/rl_config.py", >> line 99, in _startUp >> d = os.path.expanduser(d) #appengine fails with KeyError >> File "python2.7/posixpath.py", line 268, in expanduser >> import pwd >> ``` > the user suggests that even though claims are made that you can use a > filesystem, but stuff like pwd is missing. Apparently the user module has > no meaning, but there is a users module? I guess I'll need to keep > patching reportlab when GAE users find these glitches.
For what it's worth, we use reportlab on GAE to generate a simple pdf and the above error is the only one that I've encountered. For us it was enough to trap the ImportError. Thanks for all your work on reportlab, Kev -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
