doc/bugs/rst_fails_on_file_containing_only_a_number.mdwn



If you create a foo.rst containing only a number, such as "11", rendering
results in the following error being thrown. (Now that I've fixed the error
throwing code..):
exceptions.TypeError:coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found

--[[Joey]]

Does this patch against proxy.py help?

index 5136b3c..545e226 100755
--- a/plugins/proxy.py
+++ b/plugins/proxy.py
@@ -88,7 +101,7 @@ class _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler(object):

    @staticmethod
    def _write(out_fd, data):
-        out_fd.write(data)
+        out_fd.write(str(data))
        out_fd.flush()

    @staticmethod


No, still the same failure. I think it's failing parsing the input data,
(which perl probably transmitted as an int due to perl internals)
not writing out its response. --[[Joey]]


On second thought, this was a bug in ikiwiki, it should be transmitting
that as a string. Fixed in external.pm --[[Joey]]