My long response to this was sent privately instead of publicly. (I'm learning how to use this forum!)
Along the way weewx 4.8 came out with this blurb: "Fix problem that prevented wee_config --reconfigure from working when using Python 2.7, if the configuration file contained UTF-8 characters" Hmmm... On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 6:35:12 PM UTC-4 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > It took an hour of fiddling with configurations, but I was able to > reproduce the error on CentOS 7.9. > > The problem seems to be a bug in older versions of ConfigObj. If you > install ConfigObj using yum, you get V4.7, which ignores the encoding > parameter. See the change log for v5.0.1 > <https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configobj.html#version-5-0-1>. > > I was able to get the problem to go away by installing a newer version > using pip: > > *sudo pip install configobj==5.0.6* > > > Before you do that, if possible, I'd be interested in hearing what version > of ConfigObj you were using. Unfortunately, how to figure that out depends > on which version you have (!). Not all versions even have a version number, > but try this: > > *python -c "import configobj;print(configobj.__version__)"* > > > -tk > > > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 1:26 PM kheller2 <khel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was not using any driver, just the simulated one. Vince reproduced the >> same issue. install the product, stop it and run reconfigure with all >> defaults. >> I would provide my configuration but I've since installed python3 and EL8 >> package on my Cent7 box, but you can easily reproduce the same problem by >> changing to python2. >> >> On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 9:07:18 AM UTC-4 tke...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Karl, >>> >>> Can you tell me which driver you were using when you tried to >>> reconfigure? Even better, perhaps you could send me your private copy of >>> the weewx.conf you were using? tke...@gmail.com >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 5:04 PM kheller2 <khel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It's also related to python2. I installed 4.7 and most of the python3 >>>> components on Centos7 forced installed the rpm for EL8. Works good, and >>>> of >>>> course the config crashes if you use python2, but works with python3. i >>>> will be building out a EL8 box soon. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 2:38:24 PM UTC-4 kheller2 wrote: >>>> >>>>> Actually, the fix mentioned in #172 is not in my copy >>>>> of cheetahgenerator.py. But even after adding it and recompiling it >>>>> still >>>>> bombs out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 5:05:58 PM UTC-4 matthew wall wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 11:11:59 AM UTC-4 kheller2 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1457, >>>>>>> in _handle_bom >>>>>>> if not line.startswith(BOM): >>>>>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position >>>>>>> 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> the first think i thought of was the BOM problem that was fixed in >>>>>> issue: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/172 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a9a76ccb-c89a-4783-a05f-2f13397c3da3n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a9a76ccb-c89a-4783-a05f-2f13397c3da3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/db069fca-20c4-45df-84d1-0ffa5679f964n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/db069fca-20c4-45df-84d1-0ffa5679f964n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/12e49081-9870-4ba2-b040-c6821753a36cn%40googlegroups.com.
