aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

Api get_licenses method fails

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abd96 commented

Description

Whenever i call get_licenses() on a file that contains a license text for example the Barr License

This is a package of commutative diagram macros built on top of Xy-pic by Michael Barr (email: barr@barrs.org). Its use is unrestricted. It may be freely distributed, unchanged, for non-commercial or commercial use. If changed, it must be renamed. Inclusion in a commercial software package is also permitted, but I would appreciate receiving a free copy for my personal examination and use. There are no guarantees that this package is good for anything. I have tested it with LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09 and Plain TeX. Although I know of no reason it will not work with AMSTeX, I have not tested it.

UnicodeDecodeError occure :

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 32: ordinal not in range(128)

and then :

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
TypeError: function takes exactly 5 arguments (1 given)

Note that i can call other methods without errors like get_copyrights()

How To Reproduce

code :
from scancode import api
test_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path ,to ,file ))
api.get_licenses(test_dir)

System configuration

  • What OS are you running on? (Windows/MacOS/Linux)

Linux

  • What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file?

3.1.1

  • What installation method was used to install/run scancode? (pip/source download/other)

pip

MankaranSingh commented

ii'l open a pull request tomorrow, have an exam right now

ritiek commented

@abd96 What Python version are you on? I can't seem to reproduce this on my Linux machine either with Python 3.6 or Python 2.7.

Are you also able to reproduce this error when scancode is installed from GitHub?

MankaranSingh commented

@abd96 What Python version are you on? I can't seem to reproduce this on my Linux machine either with Python 3.6 or Python 2.7.

Same, i tried on Windows and can't seem to reproduce this issue on both python 3 as well as 2

MankaranSingh commented

I have tried to reproduce it on all systems, Linux, Windows, python3 and 2. I am not able to reproduce this. Can you provide the actual file you were trying to scan, maybe there could be problem with the file encoding ?

soimkim commented

I am getting the same error.

  • OS: ubuntu 18.04
  • Python : Python 3.6

After installing with pip (pip install scancode-toolkit) and activating the virtual env environment, I called it as follows.
scancode --license --copyright --json-pp scancode_result.json samples

There is no file in the folder named samples.

pombredanne commented

I was not able to reproduce these and I am closing this for now.