[Bug 1320676] Re: Python syntax error in textobject.py

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: python-reportlab (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Python syntax error in textobject.py

Status in python-reportlab package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/textobject.py", line 436, in textLines
      lines = '\n'.split(asUnicode(stuff).strip())
  ValueError: empty separator

  This is a split, not a join. The fix is to change the line to:

  lines = asUnicode(stuff).strip().split('\n')

  % lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  % apt-cache policy python-reportlab
  python-reportlab:
    Installed: 3.0-1build1
    Candidate: 3.0-1build1
    Version table:
   *** 3.0-1build1 0
          500 http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  This was discovered as part of an attempted PDF export in ocrfeeder.
  The PDF was not exported until I manually went into this python module and fixed the syntax error. The fix produced the desired result.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: python-reportlab 3.0-1build1 [modified: usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/textobject.py]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sun May 18 10:13:31 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-09 (615 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: python-reportlab
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-26 (22 days ago)

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