Re: how to fix TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object ?

[Bo YU <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>]

Hi,
On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 02:28:56PM +0300, Felix Yan wrote:
> On 10/5/22 14:02, Bo YU wrote:
> > ```
> > vimer@dev:~/build/rfs/packages/test_dir$ sudo pip3 install  
> > sphinxcontrib-ditaa
> > Collecting sphinxcontrib-ditaa
> >   Using cached sphinxcontrib-ditaa-1.0.1.tar.gz (7.5 kB)
> >   Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
> >   error: subprocess-exited-with-error
[...]
> >           return self._name_from_stem(stem) or super()._normalized_name
> >         File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", 
> > line 622, in _normalized_name
> >           return Prepared.normalize(self.name)
> >         File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", 
> > line 871, in normalize
> >           return re.sub(r"[-_.]+", "-", name).lower().replace('-', '_')
> >         File "/usr/lib/python3.10/re.py", line 209, in sub
> >           return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
> >       TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
> >       [end of output]
> >
> >   note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not 
> > a problem with pip.
> > error: metadata-generation-failed
> >
> > × Encountered error while generating package metadata.
> > ╰─> See above for output.
> >
> > ```
>
> You are right. The traceback is indeed different but more similar to 
> this one, probably: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3273
>
> I have tried to make an empty .dist-info dir and got the very similar 
> result to yours.
>
> The following command may help to locate the actual offending package:
>
> strace -eopenat python -c "from importlib.metadata import 
> entry_points; print(entry_points(group='sphinx.builders'))"

Great! It works.

I deleted the package that was installed by setup.py with above command
hint. Everythng is well now.

Many thanks~

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Regards,
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  Bo YU

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