[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Uncaught runner exception

[Mark Sapiro]

On 3/21/19 9:20 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote:
> 
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 15:13:37)
> [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
> (InteractiveConsole)
>>>> from string import lowercase
>>>> lowercase
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>>>> import string
>>>> string
> <module 'string' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/string.pyc'>


I'm out of ideas. I have no clue as to where the extended
string.lowercase is coming from and why only Mailman is seeing it, but
to work around that, I suggest you change my suggested patch to

=== modified file 'Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py'
--- Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py	2018-05-03 21:23:47 +0000
+++ Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py	2019-03-02 04:51:23 +0000
@@ -60,9 +60,12 @@
     else:
         # Mixed case; assume that small parts of the last name will be
         # in lowercase, and check them against the list.
-        while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
-                       L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts):
-            i = i - 1
+        try:
+            while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
+                           L[i-1].lower() in smallNameParts):
+                i = i - 1
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            pass
     author = SPACE.join(L[-1:] + L[i:-1]) + ', ' + SPACE.join(L[:i])
     return author


This will catch the exception and ignore it without the logging.

Also, I have no idea why when you run bin/unshunt, the .pck files remain
in qfiles/shunt without errors being reported to the terminal or logged
in mailman's error log. Something is strange about that, but I don't
know what could cause it.

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