Python 2.7 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'
 

Hello,

i am trying to decode one stream and push it to a player instead of watching it in a browser. I am using livestreamer for this purpose. Unfortunately I am getting error when i try it out:

I do not know now if there is a problem with the stream itself, or it is the livestreamer or python that generates that error. I know that this is not Slackware specific issue but if anyone has got experience with such things might share their knowledge.

Thanks!

Well, it's really a bug in the livestreamer code.

They test to see if a playlist line matches...However, the "value" expression can happen 0 or 1 times. You've got a case of 0 times. Since there's no match for the "value" expression, you get a None object (essentially a null pointer) instead of a string. None objects don't have a strip method but string objects do. The bug is that they call strip() instead of checking to see if the match is None.

IMO, the line should be replaced with Welcome to dynamic scripting languages. :)

hello Richard Cranium,

thank you for your post. I think i got what the problem is. What i did not grasp is - should i by myself modify something in the code or not? And if yes, where and how should i do that? Or just wait and be patient until the livestreamer developers correct this error?

thanks

I'd send them the traceback along with a copy of your playlist (assuming that you don't mind someone else seeing it).

You could also change your playlist to match the pattern they *really* expect. As a last resort, you could change your copy of /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer/stream/hls_playlist.py to match what I wrote above. (I'm not certain that returning None for the tag's value would really work; it could just cause a problem somewhere else.)

Hello again Richard Cranium,

thank you for posting. Of course i do not mind, you sending them my playlist.
By the way i made the changes you had proposed but i got another error:
That is why i made a roll back so now i am getting the first error.

Thank you for your cooperation!

It doesn't surprise me that my code change suggestion moved the error somewhere else. :)
Please note that I don't work on livestreamer code; I've just done a lot of python programming.

Slackware 14.2 Upgrade
 

Hello,

i installed Slackware 14.2 and all optional and mandatory packages for livestreamer from Slackbuilds repository. I still get the error:
Could this error be fixed anyhow?

Did you submit a bug report to the livestream developers the first time around? You should give them the traceback and your playlist so they can reproduce the problem.

I'll stress again that I don't work on livestream, nor do I use it. I will not submit a bug report on this.

I looked closer at the livestreamer codebase, and I don't believe that the developers have seen a playlist with the entries that you have. (I think the livestream code base could use some unit tests to verify that the code can handle None return values in various places, but that's merely my opinion.)

You can try the following, but I don't think that it will work:

Edit the file /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/livestreamer/stream/hls_playlist.py. On line 99, you will find the line..

Code:

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        match = re.match("#(?P<tag>[\w-]+)(:(?P<value>.+))?", line)

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Delete the last question mark on that line and save the file.

The stuff marked out won't work and will simply result in the same error (moved to different line numbers) as the last time you tried.

glupa4e, please submit an new issue on the livestreamer github page and tell them what you just told us.

This is a bug in livestreamer and it needs to be fixed by the developers.

Hi Guys,

i have still not submitted an issue to Livestreamer. I thought one should be a developer to submit such issues but i am not. But if no one else wants to do that, i should create an account and try to describe the issue.

If only that were true. It would certainly cut down on the number of bug reports that I get in the Day Job. ;)

Your description of the issue here is perfect. Just tell them what you told us.

Hi Guys,

thanks for your piece of advice. I submitted an issue to the Livestreamer developers.

Thanks! Despite my whining, code doesn't get better if nobody knows about problems.

Thanks to GitHub developers
 

Changing Line 99 in the file
to
solved my problem.