send_push_note throws AttributeError

[arshad-aziz]

Python 2.7.5
Weechat 2.7.1

Since last month, /send_push_note has stopped working and throws below error.

python: stdout/stderr (weebullet): Traceback (most recent call last):
python: stdout/stderr (weebullet): File "/home/user/.weechat/python/autoload/weebullet.py", line 238, in cmd_send_push_note
python: stdout/stderr (weebullet): body=args.decode('utf-8'))
python: stdout/stderr (weebullet): AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
python: error in function "cmd_send_push_note"

[dextro67]

We cannot use Python 2.7 and Python 3 simultaneously in weechat. Since Python 2 End of Life Announced as January 1st 2020 it is possible that the weechat binary was not compiled with python 2.

You can check the libs using command /debug libs . To use weebullet which like a lot of other scripts is in python 2 you will have to compile weechat with python2 and python3 as per the guidelines given.

https://weechat.org/scripts/python3/