hooks.py file in the ELinks distribution will fail with an ImportError
exception for any user who hasn't also installed contrib/python/lp3.py.
For the benefit of users who may not otherwise need that file, I'd
suggest delaying the import of lp3 until it's actually used so that
the rest of hooks.py will still work without it.
Document what happens if goto_url_hook or follow_url_hook returns None or "".
doc/events.txt already explains the corresponding C values.
[ commit message by me --KON ]
On Dec 31, 2006, at 11:30am, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo writes:
>src/scripting/python/hooks.c (script_hook_url) calls hooks as
>goto_url_hook(new-url, current-url) and follow_url_hook(new-url).
>It has a comment saying that the current-url parameter exists
>only for compatibility and that the script can instead use
>elinks.current_url(). However, the current-url parameter was
>added in commit 87e27b9b3e and is
>not in ELinks 0.11.2, so any compatibility problems would only
>hit people who have been using 0.12.GIT snapshots. Can we remove
>the second parameter now before releasing ELinks 0.12pre1?
The decision isn't up to me, but I think this is a good idea. Here's a
patch that would update the documentation and hooks.py, as well as hooks.c.
FYI, if this patch is applied then anyone who's still trying to use a
goto_url_hook that expects a second argument will get a "Browser scripting
error" dialog box that says:
An error occurred while running a Python script:
TypeError: goto_url_hook() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Before this patch, init_python would crash trying to set up elinks.home
at the Python side. Now it uses None as the value in that case.
Also, init_python no longer adds "(null)" to $PYTHONPATH.
