jonbrett / cinnamon-feeds-applet

Cinnamon applet for fetching and displaying RSS feeds
https://jonbrettdev.wordpress.com
20 stars 10 forks source link

Management app doesn't work if default python is python 3 #36

Closed jonbrett closed 10 years ago

jonbrett commented 10 years ago

Since the manage_feeds.py file contains the following start line, it uses whatever version of python is first in the path. This is distro-dependent.

#!/usr/bin/env python

For example, on my Mint 15 box this uses python 2.7.x, but on my Arch Linux box this gets Python 3.3.x. The management app currently falls over in python 3 (the unicode function is not available for starters...). In the short term the best thing to do is to force python 2