#metabrainz

I thought +250 would sweeten the deal for him, but no, he's like top 5% already, it's small beans for him :P

but when someone that experinenced describes this as a "feat", you know you're gonna have a bad time

well, you're always going to have problems with py2 and unicode

the problem with stackoverflow bountying is that it doesn't really help all that much - it's still one of the questions in a pack of - what? 366 now! a lot of which have insane bounties like +500

well, not a lot, only 2 have +500 currently, but still >-<

[picard] zas closed pull request #803: Simplify search dialog save/restore states code (master...search_dialog_states) https://git.io/vNzHQ

holy sh*tballs I have a new answer

naiveai do you even remenber 2012? (:

yes, very clearly actually, because it was the year I first learned how to program

Leo_Verto: don't merge just yet, this answer just might work

metabrainz/picard#2902 (master - 1403e13 : Laurent Monin): The build passed.

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HIS ANSWER WORKED

OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD

Leo_Verto: there is very small modification to DummyApp required to make the tests pass

like, one characther

okay, I'm going to let this one slide but don't add any more features :P

yeah, but I mean come on, 👍 is crucial, it's the intuitive way people vote

and also, VICTORY

my stackoverflow repuation SAVED THE DAY :D::D::D:D:D::D:D

jesus christ, this is not what normal 14-year-olds are happy about

I want just 👍

to work for binary votes

yeah, np

i never vote wirh emiticons

it's a regex change

SothoTalKer: don't ruin this for me

seriously, sotho

d00d.

just saying i dont :)

SothoTalKer: emojis are a vital part of any tech company in this day and age

Leo_Verto: that'll be no problem. Am I allowed to push directly to the master?

probably not

why else is everyone using slack?

but still

because my client does not support them ;p

just add it to the PR

well, it's kind of unrelated... but ok

!m naiveai

You're doing good work, naiveai!

:D

typing +1 or yes is faster than looking up some unicode emoticon

NOW FEATURE FREEZE ZOMG :P

but young people are all in for the graphics

KassOtsimine: excuse to me, I do recall you saying that that should work :P

i took it back when leo sid it would be hard D:

Leo_Verto: are you sure I shouldn't open a different PR? :P It changes self.output('something') to self.output(u'something')

right. now I go outside to overcome my fear of snow

\o

wish me luck!

okay, make a new PR then

good luck, KassOtsimine !

so I just introduces naiveai to the skin colour modifier for emojis :P

s/introduces/introduced

KILL ME

will do :3

it's getting split again :(

back to stackoverflow then :P

Leo_Verto: where should I keep utilities functions that are not specific to a particular plugin but are still needed for mine?

either base.py or make a new file in that dir and import it in base.py

the function is a regex escape function, will it fit in base.py (i am aware of re.escape, it does not work with unicode very well)

then just put it in a utils.py and import that in the plugin

you should make an upstream patch then to make re.escape work better ;)

or that :P

do you know if it's better in recent py3 versions?

both parallel is best ^^

Leo_Verto: actually, even on py3.6 it's not exactly as I need it to be

the problem is re.escape(u"\U0001f44d\U0001f3fb") results in the backslashes being escaped

which in our case is completely wrong

why do you even need to escape that?

Not that particularly

But the thing is, in the VOTE_SHORTUCT_TO_NAME dictionary, there is an entry for "+" and "-"

which do need to be escaped for my general solution to work

I don't wanna duplicate information in the regex and dictionary, ideally

But it looks like that might be my only real option

also, the order is important which also complicates things

yeah, just store them in escaped form

but then when they're checked in the _parse_vote, they will be in the escaped form

the other option is to re.escape the option in _parse_vote as well

but that won't work, actually

because of the same unicode issue

ok, there has to be an elegant solution here, even more issues are popping up...

and your github profile pic comes into play again :P

this was already an issue before this, it just got exposed here

it's somewhat true, but it's a good challenge

if it was easy, none of us would get paid :D

well, I'm not, but you get what I mean

neither am I :P

well, not for open-source, but presumably you do have a day job

too many clasues :P

nope, I'm a poor student :P

but at least I'm not accumulating student loans like bitmap is :D

YUROP

Leo_Verto: the best solution is indeed to use a custom escape function, it's the cleanest one. re.escape inserting unncessary backslashes is a well-documented problem, but an upstream patch probably won't get accepted since it's a breaking change

Leo_Verto: see this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/38506087/4014075

Leo_Verto: i'm really crying for you poor student now :p

eh, at least I'm eligible for GSoC :D

what for? a free tshirt? :D

free tshirt is literally the bomb by the way

i know

SothoTalKer: mostly, but also that sweet Google money

wanna get money from the devil? (:

Leo_Verto: as it turns out, I am stupid and re.escape works fine

nice :P

hehe

Leo_Verto: I'm rebasing and force-pushing one last time, because I was doing it earlier anyway, but I won't do it in future PRs

okay

naiveai: was prefixing the strings with u the problem?

(in py3)

samj1912: in py3 the solution is a lot lot cleaner

I would assume so

in py2 (in narrow python installations, like the one on my computer) if you put an two-char emoji into [], they will be interpreted as two seperate characters to match

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48274890/tr...

might have messed the git history a little bit. but the whole commits are now squashed, which is not that bad

mistakes were made

Leo_Verto: pushed.

thanks