{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497","id":72517676,"number":497,"title":"Are the binstar packages officially supported?","user":{"login":"rmcgibbo","id":641278,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/641278?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo","html_url":"https://github.com/rmcgibbo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":18,"created_at":"2015-05-01T20:36:33Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T18:30:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Are the RDKit packages available at https://binstar.org/rdkit/rdkit officially supported by the developers? I note that the latest release available there is 2014.09.2, which not the latest. \r\n\r\nFurthermore, with the `2014.09.2-np19py34_0` package, (linux-64) the following simple test leads to a crash:\r\n```\r\n$ cat test.py \r\nfrom rdkit import Chem\r\nmol = Chem.MolFromSmiles('CC(=O)OC1=CC=CC=C1C(=O)O')\r\nwith open('out', 'wb') as f:\r\n    w = Chem.SDWriter(f)\r\n    w.write(mol)\r\n\r\n$ python test.py \r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"test.py\", line 5, in <module>\r\n    w.write(mol)\r\nTypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface\r\nterminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::python::error_already_set'\r\n[1]    16675 abort (core dumped)  python test.py\r\n```\r\n\r\nWhe `mode='wb'` is modified to `mode='w'`, the same script crashes as\r\n```\r\n$ python test.py\r\nterminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::python::error_already_set'\r\n[1]    16761 abort (core dumped)  python test.py\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/comments/98384463","html_url":"https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497#issuecomment-98384463","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497","id":98384463,"user":{"login":"rmcgibbo","id":641278,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/641278?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo","html_url":"https://github.com/rmcgibbo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rmcgibbo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-02T18:30:17Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T18:30:17Z","body":"Note that on the reader side, there's an infinite loop *unless* it's opened as `rb` (https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/issues/497#issuecomment-98261711)."}}