Weird character errors

[merksk8]

Hi!

I'm a little newbie with python, so this may be something that I'm doing wrong, but here's the problem:

When running LS, the application names shows like this:

215. S P O T I F Y C U S E R S M E R K A P P D A T A R O A M I N G S P O T I F Y S P O T I F Y E X E

And then, when executing this code:

from AppOpener import run

run("ls")

run("spotify")

it responds:

SPOTIFY NOT FOUND... TYPE (LS) for list of applications.

So for what I see, it works well, it's just messing with the characters, encoding, or something like that.

Running it from VS Code console (tried in Powershell but same error), versions are:

• AppOpener 1.1
• Python 3.8.10
• Windows 10
• Windows in spanish ( just in case has something to do with it )

Thanks for your help, if you need any more info or you know what i'm doing wrong, please tell me!

Edit: code had "spotify.exe" because tried also this way, but neither "spotify" or "spotify.exe" never worked

[athrvvvv]

is this problem only occurring for spotify?

[merksk8]

No, happens with all programs. All with same spacing between letters in the list ( not shure if that's normal or not ), and none of them working when trying to run them. Any tip?

[merksk8]

Trying to investigate the issue, found this, for if helps!

reference.txt, all rows appear to be correct:

Spotify C:\Users\Merk\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe

in reference.txt, special characters appears OK, examples like this:

TM from "PlaystationNow", and accent in "Documentación"

PlayStation™Now F:\Program Files\PSNow\psnowlauncher.exe
Documentación de Referencia https://docs.oracle.com/javase/17/docs

data.json file, all rows appear like this:

"s p o t i f y c u s e r s m e r k a p p d a t a r o a m i n g s p o t i f y s p o t i f y e x e": "\u0000",

app_names.json appears like this:

"s p o t i f y c u s e r s m e r k a p p d a t a r o a m i n g s p o t i f y s p o t i f y e x e": "",

and when trying to run command "update", this happens:

FETCHING ALL NEW APPS (if any)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "e:/IA/SPEECH/test.py", line 4, in <module>
    run("update")
  File "E:\Python\lib\site-packages\AppOpener\__init__.py", line 98, in run
    update_list.update()   
  File "E:\Python\lib\site-packages\AppOpener\update_list.py", line 235, in update
    lines2 = str(lines).encode().decode("utf-16le")
  File "E:\Python\lib\encodings\utf_16_le.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_16_le_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-16-le' codec can't decode byte 0x00 in position 104272: truncated data

I hope this helps a little, if you need more info just tell me! And anyway I will try to keep testing things to see if I can provide more information, thanks again!!

[athrvvvv]

thanks for additional information. iam working on this... if you find any solution just pull request it.

cheers,
athrv.

[merksk8]

Created pull request #2 that I think fixes the issue (at least in my computer), first time doing a pull request so if I did something wrong please tell me! Thanks! :)

[athrvvvv]

Absolutely fantastic work!! this makes AppOpener more faster.
as you mentioned in your first comment, "you are newbie in python" but you don't seem to be newbie 🤗
I have invited you in our testing program Flaky Community.

Note: AppOpener version 1.2 will released soon..

[athrvvvv]

hello there! please make a pull request again, because of an certain reason everything got messed.

[athrvvvv]

Hey there, with the release of AppOpener v1.3 this issue must have been fixed.

Install AppOpener v1.3 as follows

pip install AppOpener==1.3

Also, for additional information you may visit documentation here.

Note: If your issue is fixed you may close the issue now.

Apart from topic, I want to ask you how did you reached AppOpener?? (ex. twitter, stackoverflow, ect.)

cheers,
athrv.

[merksk8]

Hello,

Version 1.3 works perfect now in a fresh install ( deleted all previous version files) and also "update" function works perfect, thank you very much!

I found this repo in an answer in stackoverflow. Someone was looking for the same thing as me: a way to open a program without knowing the full path.

Thanks again and reach me if you need any more information or anything!