Belchertown with Python 3.12.x issues (maybe related to WSL and/or Ubuntu 24.04)

[ehcloninger]

TL;DR

I may be doing things wrong or this may become an issue in the future. It appears that Belchertown uses locale.format() which has been deprecated as of 3.12.

https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#locale

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I'm running weewx on a mini-pc in a proxmox LXC running Debian 12. All is fine there.

I wanted to make a customization to Belchertown skin to show "yesterday" on the front page next to the current day totals. Rather than mess about with my working installation, I used WSL on my PC. WSL has Ubuntu 24.04.

I installed weewx and had it working in short order. I could launch the daemon as a simulator in one tab, while issuing weectl report run in another. I could start a local lightweight python http server with python -m http.server 8000 in /var/www and see the output.

All good so far.

I downloaded and used weectl extension install weewx-belchertown-release.1.3.1.tar.gz and it installed. I modified the weewx.conf to enable the skin.

When I issued weectl report run with the skin installed, I started getting errors on belchertown.py line 612 about locale.format() being deprecated. A web search showed this was true as of Python 3.12. I looked on my production system and I'm running 3.11.2 there.

I messed around with trying to set up pyenv on WSL for a couple hours and kept going deeper down the rabbit hole with issues. I finally backed out and just installed 3.11.2 so that I could make some progress. Even that is plaqued by issues between Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12. I finally decided that I'd rather spend the rest of the afternoon in the pool with a cold beer. I'll wait for a rainy day to try again.

[uajqq]

This fork is no longer being actively maintained -- the bug has been fixed on the active fork, which is here: https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new

[ehcloninger]

Hi @uajqq. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll fork the new repo and install when I have some time.

[ehcloninger]

@uajqq I've forked your repo and starting to integrate it into my build process. Would you be interested in getting issues or having discussions in your repo? Both are disabled at the moment. Or, if you have a Discord, my same username works there.

[uajqq]

Didn’t realize those features were turned off. Both should be working now, happy to help over on my fork if I can.