AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[bblue]

The following line raises an AttributeError when the cache is being rebuilt. Seems re.search can return None. Not sure what the underlying issue is, but the error should at least exit the method a bit more graceful.

pipwin/pipwin/pipwin.py

Line 103 in 73e0d98

dl_function = re.search(r"function dl.*\}", soup.find("script").text).group(0)

[bblue]

Did a bit more digging. RoboBrowser response is 404, and hence the re.search or soup.find has nothing to dig through. I never did much with web crawling, so someone a bit more skilled with that should figure out what is wrong with the connection to gohlke's site. I bet this affects pretty much every user of pipwin.

[bblue]

Fixed it. Seems the crawler is blocked by the server when no user agent is defined.

[bblue]

hmm... the user agent fixed the connection from my development computer, but I still get a 404 when connecting from github-servers.

[presidento23]

Where did you change the user agent? Was it in pipwin.py in the headers variable?

[bblue]

Where did you change the user agent? Was it in pipwin.py in the headers variable?

Just see my pull request. All there.
https://github.com/lepisma/pipwin/pull/44/files

[samapriya]

Hi @lepisma
This issue was because of the way beautifulsoup4 handles string vs text. Fixed this in the pull request for release 0.5.0. @bblue we have removed robobrowser since version 0.4.7. @presidento23 you can try it out using while we wait for merge. :)

pip install git+https://github.com/samapriya/pipwin.git

[samapriya]

Hey @lepisma
Would you mind merging and releasing to v0.5.0. Thank you :)

[This-is-NB]

I am not able to use pipwin
i checked "pip show pipwin"
its updated and there

but when i use any pipwin command it shows

'pipwin' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

any help would be grateful!
@samapriya
Thanks

[samapriya]

Hi @This-is-NB

• Try the pip show pipwin again
• Copy the Location path
• Add this to the Path variable in System Variables under your system properties.

Try google adding to system variables windows that should help. Close the cmd and restart again and it should hopefully work

[This-is-NB]

Helli @samapriya
I did as you said
And added the path shown in
pip show pipwin

To system variables as well as user one just to be safe
And restarted cmd
But no fruit from this either
Its showing the same error
Pipwin is not recognized as an internal or external command
Still it

[This-is-NB]

@samapriya
I'm using python 3.8
and i found on stack that it doesn't work with 3.7 and above
is it true??
if it is true any alternatives??