Workaround robobrowser bug to support Python 3.7, fix #25

voyageur · Jul 24, 2018 · 2f02fbc · 2f02fbc
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #### TBD
 - Update to new base URL, fix #24
 - Repair and rewrite group crawling
+- Workaround robobrowser bug for Python 3.7, fix #25
 
 ## [0.63] (https://github.com/voyageur/dagr/tree/0.63)
 #### 02/01/2018

diff --git a/dagr/dagr.py b/dagr/dagr.py
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ def set_browser(self):
             parser = "lxml"
         except ImportError:
             parser = "html.parser"
+        # Workaround robobrowser bug https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser/issues/87
+        if sys.version_info>=(3,5):
+            re._pattern_type = re.Pattern
 
         self.browser = RoboBrowser(history=False, session=session,
                                    tries=3, user_agent=choice(user_agents),