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Mindbody api (using python) emitting not well-formed (invalid token)

Hi friends I am trying to implement Mindbody API using python. But I am getting error that caused my work down. Down the page error is shown.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Appointment.py", line 6, in <module>
class AppointmentService():
File "Appointment.py", line 10, in AppointmentService
service = Client(urlService)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\client.py", line 112, in __init__
self.wsdl = reader.open(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\reader.py", line 152, in open
d = self.fn(url, self.options)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\wsdl.py", line 136, in __init__
d = reader.open(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\reader.py", line 79, in open
d = self.download(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\reader.py", line 101, in download
return sax.parse(string=content)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\suds\sax\parser.py", line 136, in parse
sax.parse(source)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 110, in parse
xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse
self.feed(buffer)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 217, in feed
self._err_handler.fatalError(exc)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\sax\handler.py", line 38, in fatalError
raise exception
xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: <unknown>:9:673: not well-formed (invalid token)
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actually I am unable to resolve this problem and don't know the reason behind the error

It seems you are implementing third party API so you should take care of input which are sent to the server. Mainly this type of error occurs due to improper formatting of input and server was not able to understand your request. So please check you are hitting right service call with required parameter as in the format. Do refer to MindBody Api documentation
Good example and explanation can be found here for MindBody pyton integration http://www.mindbodydeveloper.com/mindbody-integration-python-example/

Unable to ping managed nodes using ansible-2.0

I downloaded the ansible-2.0.0-0.2.alpha2.tar.gz and installed it on my control machine. However now I'm not able to ping any of my machines. Previously using v1.9.2 i could communicate with them. Now it gives the following error:
Unexpected Exception: lstat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str
the full traceback was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ansible", line 79, in
sys.exit(cli.run())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/cli/adhoc.py", line 111, in run
inventory = Inventory(loader=loader, variable_manager=variable_manager, host_list=self.options.inventory)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/init.py", line 77, in init
self.parse_inventory(host_list)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/init.py", line 133, in parse_inventory
host.vars = combine_vars(host.vars, self.get_host_variables(host.name))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/init.py", line 499, in get_host_variables
self.vars_per_host[hostname] = self.get_host_variables(hostname, vault_password=vault_password)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/__init.py", line 529, in get_host_variables
vars = combine_vars(vars, self.get_host_vars(host))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/__init_.py", line 653, in get_host_vars
return self.get_hostgroup_vars(host=host, group=None, new_pb_basedir=new_pb_basedir)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/__init_.py", line 702, in _get_hostgroup_vars
base_path = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(basedir, "host_vars/%s" % host.name))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 365, in realpath
if islink(component):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 132, in islink
st = os.lstat(path)
TypeError: lstat() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str
Any help would be appreciated.

This is a known bug due to some Unicode changes made to the playbook parser in 2.0. Several versions of Python shipped with a version of shlex.split() that fails horribly on Unicode input- you likely have one of them installed. The bug has been worked around and will be included in the next drop. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12257

mysqldbcompare and mysqldiff fails to compare

When I compare two databases, mysqluc stucks in halfway and it shows error as follows:
**Traceback (most recent call last):
File "G:\ade\build\sb_0-14553893-1424966082.93\Python-2.7.6-windows-x86-32bit\
lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 27, in <module>
File "scripts\mysqldiff.py", line 245, in <module>
File ".\mysql\utilities\command\diff.py", line 149, in database_diff
File ".\mysql\utilities\command\diff.py", line 92, in object_diff
File ".\mysql\utilities\common\dbcompare.py", line 646, in diff_objects
File ".\mysql\utilities\common\dbcompare.py", line 466, in _check_tables_struc
ture
File ".\mysql\utilities\common\database.py", line 1206, in get_object_definiti
on
File ".\mysql\utilities\common\server.py", line 1263, in exec_query
File ".\mysql\connector\cursor.py", line 339, in close
mysql.connector.errors.InternalError: Unread result found.**
I have tried with both mysqldiff and mysqldbcompare command.
mysqldiff --server1=username:password#hostname:3307 --server2=username:pasword#localhost:3306 DB1:DB1 --force --difftype=sql --changes-for=server2
mysqldbcompare --server1=username:password#hostname:3307 --server2=username:pasword#localhost:3306 DB1:DB1 --run-all-test --difftype=sql changes-for=server2
It gets stuck on both commands.
I have tried to compared on both windows 7, windows 8.1 .

I found the problem. Database is Huge and some columns in tables are in "utf8" character set with "utf8_general_ci" collation and some in "latin1" with "latin1_swedish_ci" collation. So sometimes its getting stuck i don't know why. I changed the character set of every column to "latin1" now its not getting stuck.
Execute this query to check the character set of columns.
SELECT table_name,column_name,character_set_name,data_type FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS`
WHERE table_schema = "DbName"
For character set conversion you can take help from this link
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-conversion.html

Parsing XML exception

I'm new to python, and seriously need help! I have a number of errors I can't figure out. I'm using python 2.7 on a mac. Here is the list of errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "minihiveosc.py", line 378, in <module>
swhive = SWMiniHiveOSC( options.host, options.hport, options.ip, options.port, options.minibees, options.serial, options.baudrate, options.config, [1,options.minibees], options.verbose, options.apimode )
File "minihiveosc.py", line 280, in __init__
self.hive.load_from_file( config )
File "/Users/Puffin/Documents/python/pydon/pydon/pydonhive.py", line 396, in load_from_file
hiveconf = cfgfile.read_file( filename )
File "/Users/Puffin/Documents/python/pydon/pydon/minibeexml.py", line 116, in read_file
tree = ET.parse( filename )
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1183, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 656, in parse
parser.feed(data)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1643, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in _raiseerror
raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 164, column 8
Any chance someone can help me?
Thanks!

What you posted in your question is called a "Traceback", and it shows only one error:
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 164, column 8
All the lines before it show how python got there; in the file minihiveosc.py, on line 378 some code was executed (shown in the traceback), which then led to line 280 of the same file, where something else was called, etc.
Every time Python calls a function the current state is pushed onto the stack to make room for the next context, and when an exception occurs python can show you this stack to help you diagnose your problem
In this case, you are trying to feed an XML document to the XML parser that has an error in it; by the time the parser gets to line 164, column 8, it found something it didn't expect. You'll need to inspect that document to see what the problem is, it'll be around that area.

It just because that your XML file is not wellformed at line 8. When the parser tries to read that line it raises that error. Have a look at your document to see what it is.

This is one error with stack trace.
Creation of SWMiniHiveOSC object caused error when executing load_from_file(config) method. File name or file content is in 'options.config'. Your XML config file is not well-formed, there is invalid token at line 164, column 8 in this file. The problem is with XML file, not python code.

how to fix or make an exception for this error

I'm creating a code that gets image's urls from any web pages, the code are in python and use BeutifulSoup and httplib2.
When I run the code, I get the next error:
Look me http://movies.nytimes.com (this line is printed by the code)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 103, in <module>
visit(initialList,profundidad)
File "main.py", line 98, in visit
visit(dodo[indice], bottom -1)
File "main.py", line 94, in visit
getImages(w)
File "main.py", line 34, in getImages
iSoupList = BeautifulSoup(response, parseOnlyThese=SoupStrainer('img'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1499, in __init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1230, in __init__
self._feed(isHTML=isHTML)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1263, in _feed
self.builder.feed(markup)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 148, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 226, in parse_starttag
endpos = self.check_for_whole_start_tag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 301, in check_for_whole_start_tag
self.error("malformed start tag")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 115, in error
raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 942, column 118
Someone can explain me how to fix or make an exeption for the error

Are you using latest version of BeautifulSoup?
This seems a known issue of version 3.1.x, because it started using a new parser (HTMLParser, instead of SGMLParser) that is much worse at processing malformed HTML. You can find more information about this on BeautifulSoup website.
As a quick solution, you can simply use an older version (3.0.7a).

To catch that error specifically, change your code to look like this:
try:
iSoupList = BeautifulSoup(response, parseOnlyThese=SoupStrainer('img'))
except HTMLParseError:
#Do something intelligent here
Here's some more reading on Python's try except blocks:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html

I got that error when I had the string =& in my HTML document. When I replaced that string (in my case with =and) then I no longer received that parsing error.