Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kconfiglib menuconfig implementation

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On 05/01/2018 10:56 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 04/30/2018 05:57 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Kconfiglib (https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib) now has a
>> terminal menuconfig implementation, implemented in plain curses
>> (which is in the Python standard library).
>>
>> The interface should feel familiar to people used to mconf. It has
>> some features that mconf lacks:
>>
>>   - Seamless resizing
>>
>>   - Unicode support
>>
>>   - Runs on Windows (via 'pip install windows-curses', which uses
>>     PDCurses)
>>
>>   - Improved information displays:
>>
>>     * All expressions are split into readable chunks
>>
>>     * Menus and comments have information displays
>>
>>   - Relatively easy-to-read and easy-to-tweak code.
>>
>>     Kconfiglib automatically invalidates symbols as needed, and
>>     values can never get stale, which helps.
>>
>> Some upcoming features are mouse support and a search feature that
>> can jump directly to the definition of a symbol. The jump-to feature
>> will use a "show-all" mode in case the symbol isn't visible.
>>
>> See the Kconfiglib GitHub page for screenshots. The menuconfig
>> implementation is at
>> https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/menuconfig.py.
>> The docstring at the top has some more information.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm probably missing some python additive (I hope it's that easy), but
> menuconfig.py is not liking the "degree" symbol in drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/Kconfig:
> 
> config CAN_PEAK_PCIEFD
> 	depends on PCI
> 	tristate "PEAK-System PCAN-PCIe FD cards"
> 	---help---
> 	  This driver adds support for the PEAK-System PCI Express FD
> 	  CAN-FD cards family.
> 	  These 1x or 2x CAN-FD channels cards offer CAN 2.0 a/b as well as
> 	  CAN-FD access to the CAN bus. Besides the nominal bitrate of up to
> 	  1 Mbit/s, the data bytes of CAN-FD frames can be transmitted with
> 	  up to 12 Mbit/s. A galvanic isolation of the CAN ports protects the
> 	  electronics of the card and the respective computer against
> 	  disturbances of up to 500 Volts. The PCAN-PCI Express FD can be
> 	  operated with ambient temperatures in a range of -40 to +85 °C.
> 
> 
> kconfiglib.KconfigSyntaxError: 
> Malformed ascii in drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/Kconfig
> Context: b't temperatures in a range of -40 to +85 \xc2\xb0C.\n'
> Problematic data: b'\xc2'
> Reason: ordinal not in range(128)

BTW, after modifying 4 other instances of this "error," I have it running.
Now looking/testing. :)

-- 
~Randy
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