A couple of days ago, pelican got updated from version 3.7.1 in testing to
4.0.1. Good news is that it's now written in Python 3, bad news is that
breaking changes in the main configuration file need to be made.
Here's two things you'll need to change in pelicanconf.py to migrate:
1. %s in the Atom feed path needs to be replaced by either {slug} or
{lang}, depending on the variable.
For example:
-TAG_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/tags/%s.atom.xml'
+TAG_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/tags/{slug}.atom.xml'
2. FEED_MAX_ITEMS now needs to be an integer and not a string.
My previous configuration had FEED_MAX_ITEMS = '20' and this crashed pelican
with this error:
CRITICAL: TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pelican", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('pelican==4.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pelican')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pelican/__init__.py", line 623, in main
pelican.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pelican/__init__.py", line 190, in run
p.generate_output(writer)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 688, in generate_output
self.generate_feeds(writer)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 335, in generate_feeds
self.settings['FEED_ALL_ATOM'])
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pelican/writers.py", line 131, in write_feed
max_items = min(self.settings['FEED_MAX_ITEMS'], max_items)
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str'
This can be fixed this way:
-FEED_MAX_ITEMS = '20' +FEED_MAX_ITEMS = 20