[mythtvnz] mhegepgsnoop.py broken by Python 3.12

[Robert Fisher]

Thankyou again Stephen.

I also had the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 24.04.1

Replacing mhegepgsnoop.py with the new version fixed it.

And here is a link to the archives page with Stephen's instructions.

http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/mythtvnz/2022-July/016872.html

On 5/10/24 20:41, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> Last night I upgraded my main MythTV box from Xubuntu 22.04.5 to
> Xubuntu 24.04.1.  Python 3 was upgraded from 3.10.12 to 3.12.3 and
> this broke mhegepgsnoop.py.  The call in mhegepgsnoop.py to
> sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode was apparently deprecated a long time ago,
> and it was returning str instead of its old function, which I think
> was previously needed in Python 2 due to Python 2 not doing Unicode
> very well.  Python 3 is fully Unicode and did not need
> sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode any more, and in Python 3.12 it was finally
> removed (or it might have been in Python 3.11).  So, before you
> upgrade to anything that is running Python > 3.10, please replace your
> copy of mhegepgsnoop.py with the new version:
>
> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mhegepgsnoop-0.7.4.py
>
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