[plug] Fwd: python issue

[Gavin Chester]

I take it from the lack of responses that no one else is suffering 
errors  with either of the stream capture scripts. So, I'm hoping that 
posting the error report will allow some python gurus to discern where 
the error may lie. The only change to my system in recent days is to 
have upgraded my kernel.

I can't find any report of error from others in the last few days, but 
here is a copy of the error report:
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gavin at gavin-Inspiron-N5050 ~/Videos $ ./sbs-downloader-ondemand
Script to download programs from the SBS On-Demand service.  Please 
don't panic - I'm retrieving the feed of all the programs available... 
Which it turns out takes some time :)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./sbs-downloader-ondemand", line 113, in <module>
     main()
   File "./sbs-downloader-ondemand", line 95, in main
     possibleVideos = programs.getVideos(itemsPerPage=programs.totalResults)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SbsOnDemand/Feed.py", 
line 173, in getTotalResults
     self._updateFeed(True)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SbsOnDemand/Feed.py", 
line 98, in _updateFeed
     feed = json.load(page)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 
329, in load
     use_decimal=use_decimal, **kw)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 
385, in loads
     return _default_decoder.decode(s)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 
402, in decode
     obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 
420, in raw_decode
     raise JSONDecodeError("No JSON object could be decoded", s, idx)
simplejson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: 
line 2 column 1 (char 1)
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  I think it may be related to a kernel upgrade done a few days ago. I'm 
running 3.0.0-16-generic.

Hope you have some advice.

Gavin Chester

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: python issue
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:00:05 +0800
From: Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com>
To: plug at plug.org.au

I have been very happily using two python-based utilities
"sbs-downloader-ondemand" and "python-iview". However, neither will run
atm, each app reporting python run errors. I won't clog your reading
pleasure with snippets of the errors atm, just checking if anyone is
similarly recently plagued by errors with these apps?

Gavin