maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 203592] lang/python27: ImportError: ntpath cannot import name _unicode from genericpath

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Bug 203592: lang/python27: ImportError: ntpath cannot import name _unicode from
genericpath
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203592



--- Description ---
I noticed that after updating my installed packages that SickRage was not
functioning properly. The the following error was found in my SickRage error
log:


2015-10-06 17:00:21 Thread-155 :: Failed doing webui callback: Traceback (most
recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/sickrage/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 273, in async_call
    result = function(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/sickrage/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 1228, in displayShow
    t = PageTemplate(rh=self, file="displayShow.tmpl")
  File "/usr/local/sickrage/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 124, in __init__
    super(PageTemplate, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1259,
in __init__
    self._compile(source, file, compilerSettings=compilerSettings)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1553,
in _compile
    keepRefToGeneratedCode=True)
  File "/usr/local/sickrage/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 168, in compile
    return super(PageTemplate, self).compile(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 788,
in compile
    exec(co, mod.__dict__)
  File
"/usr/local/sickrage/cache/cheetah/_usr_local_sickrage_gui_slick_interfaces_def
ault_displayShow_tmpl.py",
line 34, in <module>
    import ntpath
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ntpath.py", line 15, in <module>
    from genericpath import _unicode
ImportError: cannot import name _unicode




I found that /usr/local/lib/python2.7/ntpath.py had the following import lines
and after removing the second line everything began function properly. This is
clearly not the most appropriate course of action since none of the _unicode
tests will execute in ntpath.py this way, but it definitely wasn't working
correctly the other way. 

from genericpath import *
from genericpath import _unicode


/usr/local/lib/python2.7/generic.py path only has the following related to
unicode so I am not sure why the import in ntpath.py isn't working:

try:
    _unicode = unicode
except NameError:
    # If Python is built without Unicode support, the unicode type
    # will not exist. Fake one.
    class _unicode(object):
	pass