LYX 2.4 RC1 — Unable to export a Lyx archive (zip)

[José Matos]

On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 20:49 +0100, didiergabory at free.fr wrote:
> 20:37:37.977: Exportation en cours...
> 20:37:37.993: (buffer-export lyxzip)
> 20:37:38.150: python -tt "C:/Users/Didier/AppData/Local/Programs/LyX
> 2.4/Resources/scripts/lyxpak.py" "K:/CPGE/PTSI/DS/DS-2023-
> 2024/DS3/"/"MWE-PDF preview.lyx"
> 20:37:38.375: Traceback (most recent call last):
> 20:37:38.376:   File "C:\Users\Didier\AppData\Local\Programs\LyX
> 2.4\Resources\scripts\lyxpak.py", line 396, in <module>
> 20:37:38.377:     if not argv[0].startswith("-"):
> 20:37:38.378:            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 20:37:38.378: TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a
> tuple of bytes, not str
> support\Systemcall.cpp (306): Systemcall: 'python -tt
> "C:/Users/Didier/AppData/Local/Programs/LyX
> 2.4/Resources/scripts/lyxpak.py" "K:/CPGE/PTSI/DS/DS-2023-
> 2024/DS3/"/"MWE-PDF preview.lyx"' finished with exit code 1
> Error: Conversion du fichier impossible

The problem here is that argv members are of type bytes instead of
being str (string).

This comes from the fact that the lyxpak.py script has special code to
deal with Python 2 on Windows.

@Enrico could it be that most of the specific windows code is not need
any more with Python 3?

Regards,
-- 
José Abílio