broken reportlab import
jeverling opened this issue · comments
Hi, it looks like there was a reportlab release today: https://pypi.org/project/reportlab/4.1.0/#history
This seems to lead to a broken import:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xhtml2pdf/context.py", line 30, in <module>
from reportlab.platypus.frames import Frame, ShowBoundaryValue
ImportError: cannot import name 'ShowBoundaryValue' from 'reportlab.platypus.frames' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/frames.py)
Presumably this functionality changed in reportlab.
Maybe it would be a good idea, to pin the version of reportlab more strictly? Right now it's "reportlab>=4.0.4".
+1, seems like this error came with reportlab upgrade to version 4.1.0
Oh my, another package failing because of a sub-dependency removing functionality. I hate it so much!
Sorry guys for the inconvenience, I pinned reportlab<4.1 now, hopefully this fixes the issue until we can have a closer look how we can replace the missing reportlab function.
Oh my, another package failing because of a sub-dependency removing functionality. I hate it so much!
I understand your frustration, but please keep in mind that you're using free and open source software, so don't be mad at people who sacrifice a little of their free time to maintain a legacy project.
I understand.
I guess my comment was more geared towards the fact that this happens quite frequently, for various packages.
Thanks for your efforts
reportlab<4.1 is not sufficient - the change happened in reportlab==4.0.9.1: https://hg.reportlab.com/hg-public/reportlab/rev/f639b3f1d8b0 https://hg.reportlab.com/hg-public/reportlab/file/tip/CHANGES.md
The new import seems to be from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import ShowBoundaryValue.
reportlab==4.0.9 is working, thanks everyone!