Problem with German region format

[mase76]

Hi!
I am getting this error when trying to browse with the Massengeschmack addon on my Debian
Stretch machine with Kodi 18 Master:

01:59:01.348 T:139685992642304 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<-- - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'> Error Contents: time data 'Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:00:00' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/default.py", line 45, in <module> if listing.generate(datasource): File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/listing.py", line 46, in generate for i in items: File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/datasource.py", line 302, in getListItems 'premiered' : resources.lib.parseUTCDateString(i['pubdate']).strftime('%Y-%m-%d'), File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/__init__.py", line 324, in parseUTCDateString date = datetime.strptime(datestr[:-6], format) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 332, in _strptime (data_string, format)) ValueError: time data 'Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:00:00' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' -->End of Python script error report<-- 01:59:01.443 T:139688306874752 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.massengeschmack/?cmd=list&module=main 01:59:01.445 T:139688306874752 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.massengeschmack/?cmd=list&module=main) failed 02:00:59.435 T:139685875668736 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<-- - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'> Error Contents: time data 'Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:00:00' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/default.py", line 45, in <module> if listing.generate(datasource): File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/listing.py", line 46, in generate for i in items: File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/datasource.py", line 302, in getListItems 'premiered' : resources.lib.parseUTCDateString(i['pubdate']).strftime('%Y-%m-%d'), File "/home/mase/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.massengeschmack/resources/lib/__init__.py", line 326, in parseUTCDateString date = datetime(*(time.strptime(datestr[:-6], format)[0:6])) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 478, in _strptime_time return _strptime(data_string, format)[0] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 332, in _strptime (data_string, format)) ValueError: time data 'Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:00:00' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' -->End of Python script error report<-- 02:00:59.857 T:139688306874752 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.massengeschmack/?cmd=list&module=jung 02:00:59.859 T:139688306874752 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.massengeschmack/?cmd=list&module=jung) failed

I wonder, the date format seems correct.

[mase76]

My locale settings seem not to recognized.

[phoerious]

Did it work with previous versions on your machine?

[mase76]

The current version runs on Libreelec with Kodi 18 Master without problems.
The problem is on all my self built Debian Stretch machines.
It is a locale problem. I added the line
datestr = 'Sa, 22 Jul 2017 16:00:00 +0200'
to the function def parseUTCDateString(datestr):
to workaround this. The addon is usable again, except the release date is the
date I overwrote. A German date is expected, but In my system the addon
gets the UTC date. I don't know, if this is a Kodi or Debian specific problem.
Even when setting LC_ALL = de_DE.UTF-8, is makes no difference. It seems,
that I am alone with this problem.

[phoerious]

Must be a Kodi or Debian bug. The locale setting should be propagated properly to the plugin interpreter.

[mase76]

I don't know why, but it runs again.

[phoerious]

Great!

[mase76]

I reopened this issue, because I can reproduce it now.
When changing the Kodi language to German, the setting of the default region format changes
to Belgium. Then the addon works. But when I set the default region format to Germany,
I get the above date format error.

[phoerious]

I suppose I have to set the locale explicitly before parsing. I'll have to test this (but wouldn't mind if someone else made a patch).

[mase76]

Can you also reproduce this error?

[phoerious]

Not right now. Need to test it when I'm back home beginning of next year.

[mase76]

I changed the title of this issue to a better one.