I've been in touch with a former developer of pyzor. Bottom line is that
the company that had it was acquired, and pyzor is not being maintained
by the new owners.
I'm still trying to get a contact who might be able to pass on the
maintenance ownership of the GitHub repository, but have yet to make
much progress.
In the meantime, option 3 is best. The current head of the repo is
stable, will not be changed, and works with python 3, installable using
pip directly from GitHub.
Sidney
Bill Cole wrote on 9/06/24 6:45 am:
I was working on a mail system today and inadvertently noticed that its Pyzor was broken.
When I tried to reinstall Pyzor according to the web documentation with "pip3
install pyzor" I got what claimed to be v1.0.0 and no complaints from the installer
but when running the pyzor client tool, it kicked out errors indicating to me that the
program had not been even trivially updated to work with Python 3. I did the absolute
hackiest thing I could to make it work (blanket s/iteritems/items/ and s/xrange/range/ to
address specific error messages) and it did so, but that's not acceptable. Neither is
reinstalling a Python2 world.
I went looking for a better fix and found a reported issue at
https://github.com/SpamExperts/pyzor/issues/155 matching my original symptoms
in which a workaround was provided: install directly from the GitHub project's
master.zip link, i.e. a snapshot assembled from the current state of the repo,
which claims to be v1.1.1. I do not like that solution at all, and added a
comment to that issue suggesting that they fix the problem by cutting a release
for PyPI. No response yet, but it has only been a matter of minutes.
FOR NOW: If you are running a system where Python 2.x no longer exists (that
should be everywhere...) and you've never confirmed that Pyzor is working for
you, do so now. If you pipe a message to 'pyzor check' and it gives you a
response like this you're fine:
public.pyzor.org:24441 (200, 'OK') 0 0
If instead you get a Python stack trace, obviously it's broken.
I don't feel great recommending any of the obvious mitigations. They are:
1. Install Python 2.7 and pyzor 1.0.0 from PyPI.
2. Hand-patch pyzor 1.0.0 minimally to get it to work with Python 3.
3. Install the head of the development tree from GitHub, whatever that happens
to be at the moment.
I've chosen #3 for myself, but it's not great.
