pickle.UnpicklingError: the STRING opcode argument must be quoted
jabir366 opened this issue · comments
What happened:
While querrying using howdoi, the program crashed . the query i used is howdoi get current branch git
What you expected to happen:
A simple one lined answer for my obvious query
Output with --explain
$ howdoi YOUR_COMMAND --explain
root@jjabir ~/j/bb# howdoi get current branch git --explain
INFO: Version: 2.0.19
INFO: Fetching answers for query: get current branch git
INFO: Searching google with URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com%20get%20current%20branch%20git&hl=en
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/howdoi", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(command_line_runner())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 815, in command_line_runner
utf8_result = howdoi(args).encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 633, in howdoi
res = _get_answers(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 433, in _get_answers
question_links = _get_links_with_cache(args['query'])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/howdoi/howdoi.py", line 417, in _get_links_with_cache
cache.set(cache_key, question_links or CACHE_EMPTY_VAL)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cachelib/file.py", line 215, in set
self._prune()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cachelib/file.py", line 152, in _prune
self._remove_expired(now)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cachelib/file.py", line 99, in _remove_expired
expires = pickle.load(f)
_pickle.UnpicklingError: the STRING opcode argument must be quoted
I would like to contribute to fixing this issue
Looks interesting. Any idea why you think it's happening?
I had the same error after upgrading to Python 3.10. Clearing the cache using howdoi -C fixed it for me.
Great tool btw - thank you!
@jabir366 one solution here would be to catch that error and to offer a message suggesting the user clear the cache.