[SOLVED] Slate in Python stumbles on foothills

Slate in Python stumbles on foothills

Trying to parse PDFs into text and have been trying to start with Slate.

However, just following the basic example posted everywhere, I get the following:

>>> import slate
>>> with open('pytest.PDF') as fp:
...     doc = slate.PDF(fp)
... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 52, in __init__
self.append(self.interpreter.process_page(page))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 36, in process_page
self.device.outfp.buf = ''
AttributeError: 'cStringIO.StringO' object has no attribute 'buf'

Any ideas?

Solution

This can be fixed by changing line 36 where the error occurred to read:

self.device.outfp.truncate(0)