Trouble installing

[jsdealy]

I may be doing something stupid, but my attempts to install have continually just produced this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/justin/.local/bin/visidata", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(vd_cli())
  File "/home/justin/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/visidata/main.py", line 350, in vd_cli
    rc = main_vd()
  File "/home/justin/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/visidata/main.py", line 209, in main_vd
    vd.loadConfigAndPlugins(args)
  File "/home/justin/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/visidata/settings.py", line 378, in loadConfigAndPlugins
    for ep in entry_points().get('visidata.plugins', []):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 1015, in entry_points
    return SelectableGroups.load(eps).select(**params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 453, in load
    ordered = sorted(eps, key=by_group)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 1012, in <genexpr>
    eps = itertools.chain.from_iterable(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_itertools.py", line 16, in unique_everseen
    k = key(element)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 947, in _normalized_name
    return self._name_from_stem(stem) or super()._normalized_name
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 616, in _normalized_name
    return Prepared.normalize(self.name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 871, in normalize
    return re.sub(r"[-_.]+", "-", name).lower().replace('-', '_')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/re.py", line 209, in sub
    return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

I'm running Arch Linux.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[anjakefala]

Hey @jsdealy

Thanks so much for letting us know. While we debug, if you set

options.plugins_autoload=False

in a ~/.visidatarc that block of code will not execute, and you should have a working VisiData.

[anjakefala]

I created an issue here: #1529 because this might be a bug.