Closed vmanke closed 3 years ago
Since there is no associated issue, documenting the error here:
$ pip install --user pdfx
$ python --version
Python 3.9.2
$ pdfx -v 10-years-Report-EN.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/yala/.local/bin/pdfx", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/yala/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/cli.py", line 149, in main
pdf = pdfx.PDFx(args.pdf)
File "/home/yala/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/__init__.py", line 127, in __init__
self.reader = PDFMinerBackend(self.stream)
File "/home/yala/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/backends.py", line 182, in __init__
self.metadata.update(xmp_to_dict(metadata))
File "/home/yala/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/libs/xmp.py", line 89, in xmp_to_dict
return XmpParser(xmp).meta
File "/home/yala/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/libs/xmp.py", line 51, in meta
for el in desc.getchildren():
AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute 'getchildren'
I have tested this patch, and it works sufficiently.
$ wget https://github.com/metachris/pdfx/pull/45/commits/f154c7c24e81a66e4a73f3a9dde71e3a123f30f6.patch
$ patch ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfx/libs/xmp.py f154c7c24e81a66e4a73f3a9dde71e3a123f30f6.patch
$ pdfx -v 10-years-Report-EN.pdf
Document infos:
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Thanks!
Now pdfx will also run with newer Python versions installed.