Unicode String and Integer Division related crashes (python2 vs. python3)

My attempted command is python3 ideepcolor.py --cpu_mode All dependencies seem to have installed correctly. I am obtaining the following crash on Intel i3 w/ Debian 9 Codename Stretch:

b'test_imgs/mortar_pestle.jpg'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ideepcolor.py", line 60, in <module>
    window = gui_design.GUIDesign(color_model=colorModel, dist_model=distModel, img_file=args.image_file, load_size=args.load_size, win_size=args.win_size)
  File "/home/bb/ideepcolor/ui/gui_design.py", line 112, in __init__
    self.drawWidget.init_result(img_file)
  File "/home/bb/ideepcolor/ui/gui_draw.py", line 54, in init_result
    self.read_image(image_file.encode('utf-8'))  # read an image
  File "/home/bb/ideepcolor/ui/gui_draw.py", line 79, in read_image
    im_bgr = cv2.imread(image_file)
TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation

Thanks for your help.

[Benitoite]

I see https://github.com/junyanz/interactive-deep-colorization/blame/python3/ui/gui_draw.py Strings are already unicode in python3 whereas python2 is old-fashioned ASCII, requiring conversion. You may want a python3 branch. https://github.com/Benitoite/interactive-deep-colorization/tree/python3 Perhaps a python2/python3 conditional is possible.

I think sometimes people’s OS/distribution will allow either one or both pythons, sometimes because of package managers or a dependencies python hook locked to one version.

[junyanz]

Thanks for the update. I fixed the integer division issue with the latest commit.