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python-fontconfig sometimes segfaults #12

Closed mike-fabian closed 1 year ago

mike-fabian commented 1 year ago 
$ python3
Python 3.11.0 (main, Oct 24 2022, 00:00:00) [GCC 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 12.2.1-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import fontconfig
>>> fonts = fontconfig.query(lang='bn')
>>> fonts = fontconfig.query(lang='hi')
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
mfabian@fedora:~
$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven)
mfabian@fedora:~
$ rpm -q python3-fontconfig
python3-fontconfig-0.5.1-10.fc37.x86_64
mfabian@fedora:~
$
mike-fabian commented 1 year ago

https://pypi.org/project/Python-fontconfig/ was last updated in 2011.

Might have problems with newer versions of fontconfig. At least it does not seem to work reliably on fedora 37.

Better use fc-list instead.