[Mailman-Developers] Fail to create a list with MM3 ALPHA

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:

> I am having problems creating a mailing list with MM3 ALPHA.
>
> Then I try to create a list:
>
> # /var/lib/mailman/bin/create_list -C /etc/mailman/mailman.cfg mailman at mailman.state-of-mind.de
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/create_list", line 18, in <module>
>    mailman.bin.create_list.main()
>  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/bin/create_list.py", line 93, in main
>    options = ScriptOptions()
>  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/options.py", line 80, in __init__
>    self.add_options()
>  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/bin/create_list.py", line 47, in  
> add_options
>    super(ScriptOptions, self).add_options()
>  File "/root/mailman/src/mailman/options.py", line 131, in add_options
>    type='unicode', help=_('The mailing list name'))
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1004, in add_option
>    raise TypeError, "invalid arguments"
> TypeError: invalid arguments
>
>
> What should I do?

I'll try to fix this later today.  The problem is that I've enabled  
unicode literals in all the source files, but Python's standard  
optparse.py module does not allow unicode options (I consider this a  
bug in the module, may or may not get fixed for Python 2.6). The  
solution is to wrap the option specs in str().

The other problem is that the command line scripts are not well  
tested.  Eventually I'll add unit tests for those.

Barry

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