Re: Problem coercing to Unicode

Hi Eric,

I believe this is due to a bug in Nio.py that we fixed after this
release. David Broderick was kind enough to post a fix, which you can
find here:

   http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/User_forum/Archives/2008/0127.html

--Mary

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Eric Parent wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I installed the following packages:
> - "PyNIO-1.3.0b1.linux-i686.-gcc412-2.5"
> - "PyNGL-1.3.0b1.linux-i686-gcc412-2.5"
>
> I am running under Kubuntu 8.08, with Python 2.5.2.
>
> I try to launch the "nio_demo.py" script in order to see everything is
> going on properly but get this:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "nio_demo.py", line 2, in <module>
> import Nio
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyNIO/Nio.py", line 117, in <module>
> os.environ["NCARG_NCARG"] = pyniopath_ncarg()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyNIO/Nio.py", line 99, in
> pyniopath_ncarg
> if os.path.exists(ncarg_dir):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 171, in exists
> st = os.stat(path)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone ever got that? Anybody knows how to fix it? I know a little
> about Python programming but since these scripts are distributed, I
> guess this shouldn't happen.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> - Eric
>
> email: ericp <dot/> 75 <at/> gmail <dot/> com
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