Feedparser AttributeError in Python 3.9

[apmarshall]

Python 3.9 makes a change in how base64.decodestring works, which in particular impacts Gitsome's use of feedparser. See this issue for more information. This was fixed in later versions of feedparser, so gitsome needs to allow those later version to work on Python 3.9.

Pull request to address this forthcoming.

[kwanhur]

Any update on this issue?

I caught base64.decodestring related problem at version 0.8.4, located at main_cli.py as beblow

➜ gitsome
Gitsome Version: 0.8.4


kwanhur at C02P57TSG3QJ in ~ on
$ gh configure
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/gh", line 5, in <module>
    from gitsome.main_cli import cli
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gitsome/main_cli.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .githubcli import GitHubCli
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gitsome/githubcli.py", line 21, in <module>
    from .github import GitHub
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gitsome/github.py", line 29, in <module>
    import feedparser
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/feedparser.py", line 93, in <module>
    _base64decode = getattr(base64, 'decodebytes', base64.decodestring)
AttributeError: module 'base64' has no attribute 'decodestring'