[Python-modules-team] Bug#685302: Installing html package with Python 3

[Russel Winder]

Richard,

On Debian Unstable I am trying to install the html package for Python 3.
For Python 2, I did a "pip install html" and it worked fine. Using
"pip-3.2 install html" I got an error from the execution of the
setup.py. I sent in a bug report but then thought actually it is not a
packaging problem, something Jakub replied with to my bug report. I
tried downloading the tarball and installing but got the same problem.

>  File "/root/build/html/setup.py", line 12, in <module>
>
>    long_description = __doc__.decode('utf8'),
>
>AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

__doc__ is of type str which has a method decode in Python 2, but decode
is a method on bytearray in Python 3. I removed the decode call and it
installed fine with Python 3.

Perhaps there needs to be a Python 2 / Python difference in the setup.py
file?

Thanks.

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