Fvwm-menu-desktop fails if used with --get-menus

[lgsobalvarro]

If I run
fvwm-menu-desktop --get-menus all

Or

fvwm-menu-desktop --get-menus desktop

I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop", line 889, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop", line 470, in main
    parsemenus(menulist, desktop, desktop_entries)
  File "/usr/local/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop", line 746, in parsemenus
    parsemenu(xdg.Menu.parse(menu), name, title, desktop_subentries)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1128, in parse
    return XMLMenuBuilder(debug).parse(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 632, in parse
    menu = self.parse_menu(tree.getroot(), filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 650, in parse_menu
    self.parse_node(node, filename, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 659, in parse_node
    menu = self.parse_menu(child, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 650, in parse_menu
    self.parse_node(node, filename, menu)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 682, in parse_node
    parent.Rules.append(self.parse_rule(child))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 759, in parse_rule
    return Rule(type, tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 421, in __init__
    self.code = compile(self.expression, '<compiled-menu-rule>', 'eval')
ValueError: Name node can't be used with 'True' constant

This issue seems to affect FVWM2 as well.

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[ThomasAdam]

Hi @lgsobalvarro,

I seem to recall a brief conversation about this on IRC, with @somiaj? @somiaj -- is this an actual problem we need to solve, do you know?

[somiaj]

My only comment was 'it works for me', and I didn't have time to look at why python is not liking it. Since I'm using python 3.7, unsure if there is some change in python 3.8, or something on lgsobalvarro's system causing this ValueError.

[ThomasAdam]

Okey dokey. @lgsobalvarro, which python version are you using which shows this error?

[lgsobalvarro]

Python 3.8.5
I also have on my system 2.7.18

[ThomasAdam]

Hi @lgsobalvarro

Is this issue still a problem?

[lgsobalvarro]

Yes. The problem continues with the exact same error when I run fvwm-menu-desktop --get-menus all

Tested with Fvwm3 1.0.1 (1.0.0-42-g264eaf1e)

[lgsobalvarro]

This seems to work now fine.
I didn't touch anything on my config.
Seems like it had something to do with the way python was being packaged or something. Looks like the most recent python update changed this.

Seems @somiaj was in the right track.

I'm closing this issue then :)