Python 3

It doesn’t seem to work in Python 3. What a shame…

(env) 02:39:47 (master) /tmp/statik/examples/blog$ statik
Project path configured as: /tmp/statik/examples/blog
Error caught: name 'unicode' is not defined

[gjcarneiro]

I simply tried to build the example blog with Python 3.6 (also tried 3.5), and it doesn’t work:

(env) 06:09:26 (master) /tmp/statik$ pip install statik
Collecting statik
  Using cached statik-0.7.0.tar.gz
[...]
(env) 06:09:56 (master) /tmp/statik/examples/blog$ statik
Project path configured as: /tmp/statik/examples/blog
Error caught: name 'unicode' is not defined
(env) 06:09:57 (master) /tmp/statik/examples/blog$ python
Python 3.6.0b2 (default, Oct 11 2016, 05:27:10) 
[GCC 6.2.0 20161005] on linux

Because of the name 'unicode' is not defined part I thought it was because the code wasn’t prepared to run in Python 3, because in Python 3 there is no unicode type, that only exists in Python 2.

As a side note, I don’t like the Error caught: name 'unicode' is not defined handling at all. You shouldn’t hide Python tracebacks, that is an anti-pattern: now I’m not even able to debug where this error comes from…

[thanethomson]

No worries. I realised I didn’t actually have a requirements.txt in the repo for the blog example, so I just added it today. And apologies for the difficulty in debugging! Hope it’s easier from now on 😁