Since version 3.0 Calibre includes a new Content server [1]. Trying to interface with this server using the command line tool calibredb leads to the following error: $ calibredb search XXX --username XXX --password XXX --with-library "http://localhost:8080/#calibre-library" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/calibredb", line 20, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 250, in main return run_cmd(cmd, opts, args[1:], DBCtx(opts)) File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 54, in run_cmd ret = m.main(opts, args, dbctx) File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/db/cli/cmd_search.py", line 45, in main ids = dbctx.run('search', q) File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 188, in run return self.remote_run(name, m, *args) File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/db/cli/main.py", line 208, in remote_run res = self.br.open_novisit(rq) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit return self._mech_open(url, data, visit=False, timeout=timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_opener.py", line 193, in open response = urlopen(self, req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mechanize/_urllib2_fork.py", line 1115, in do_open h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1042, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1082, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1038, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 880, in _send_output msg += message_body UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x91 in position 0: invalid start byte According to Kovid Goyal this is caused by an outdated version of python-mechanize [2]. Fedora still ships version 0.2.5 (which was released in 2011). As of today, the latest version is 0.3.5 [3]. Bug 1432447 already tracks new releases of python-mechanize, but nobody seems to care. [1] https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve [2] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3520402&postcount=151 [3] https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize
I have built new python-mechanize in rawhide, but it needs python-webencodings for tests, so I want to get that package added and used before pushing it to stable releses. Additionally I had to update python-html5lib and it also needs python-webencodings for tests. So, hopefully soon I will push all these to 26. I can confirm that rawhide is working with the calibredb now and the new mechanize.
Yes, indeed, calibredb works as expected after installing the new mechanize and html5lib packages. Thank you very much!
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