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MacOS: ftxvalidator is installed, but "Checking with ftxvalidator" still returns ERROR

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On MacOS 10.11 I have ftxvalidator [build 207, FontToolbox.framework build 257] installed and have tested it from the command line on a .ttf file, this results in a plist as output.

However, when I run fontbakery check-googlefonts Same-Font.ttf I still get a checking with ftxvalidator ERROR:

>> com.google.fonts/check/035 with (('font[0]', 'Orbitron-VF.ttf'),)
   Checking with ftxvalidator.
 * ERROR: Failed with AttributeError: module 'plistlib' has no attribute 'readPlistFromString'
           File "/Users/eli/Py/Venv/type-tools/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fontbakery/checkrunner.py", line 347, in _exec_check_generator
             for sub_result in gen:
         

   Result: ERROR

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Created 5 years ago
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felipesanchescommented, Jun 27, 2018

Looking here, readPlistFromString should be the correct method: https://docs.python.org/2/library/plistlib.html

But then looking at the python 3 documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html

we see that we have plistlib.readPlistFromBytes(data) instead!

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felipesanchescommented, Jun 29, 2018

this was fixed on pull request #1947

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