Can't add new styles in python2

Hi, When adding a new style to the subtitles I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "colorset.py", line 20, in <module>
    subs1.save(foutput,format_='ass')
  File "/home/mohammad/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysubs2/ssafile.py", line 190, in save
    self.to_file(fp, format_, fps=fps, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mohammad/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysubs2/ssafile.py", line 222, in to_file
    impl.to_file(self, fp, format_, fps=fps, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mohammad/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysubs2/substation.py", line 253, in to_file
    fields = [field_to_string(f, getattr(ev, f)) for f in EVENT_FIELDS[format_]]
  File "/home/mohammad/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysubs2/substation.py", line 242, in field_to_string
    raise TypeError("Unexpected type when writing a SubStation field")
TypeError: Unexpected type when writing a SubStation field

If I run the same code in python3 it runs fine but if i run it under python2 i get the error, I’m trying to use pysubs2 in kodi which currently only support python2. The code I used

import pysubs2
import chardet

finput='en.srt'
foutput='en.ass'
with open(finput,'rb') as fi:
	rawdata = fi.read()
	encoding = chardet.detect(rawdata)['encoding']
fi.close()

subs1 = pysubs2.load(finput)
top_style = pysubs2.SSAStyle()
top_style.alignment=8
subs1.styles['top-style'] = top_style
for line in subs1:
	line.style='top-style'
subs1.save(foutput,format_='ass')

[moham96]

@tkarabela
It is solved, I upgraded the library in the python3 site-packages (pip3) and tested on the python2 😅 It was a stupid mistake on my end.

Thank you very much for your help

[tkarabela]

I don’t have much time to develop this library anymore, but every now and then I manage to release a new version, so it’s not quite dead 😃

The best way to use pysubs2 is from Python 3 or Python 2 with from __future__ import unicode_literals. I was able to fix your particular issue, so your original code now works as expected with Python 2.7 and newly released 0.2.3 version of the library.