error when running Find_room.py

[sivakrkumar]

Hi
I am using python 2.7. when I tried to execute find_room.py in my local , it has raised the below error message. Kindly assist.

The syntax of the command is incorrect.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\siramac\Desktop\roomfinder-master\roomfinder-master\find_rooms.
py", line 57, in
rooms.update(findRooms(prefix))
File "C:\Users\siramac\Desktop\roomfinder-master\roomfinder-master\find_rooms.
py", line 28, in findRooms
tree = ET.fromstring(response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1312, in XML
return parser.close()
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1665, in close
self._raiseerror(v)
File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0

[ammferreirinha]

Same issue...

[MortenVinding]

Same issue here.
Running python2 with the verbose "-v" switch revealed the problem:

Password:
/bin/sh: 14: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

turned out the password can not contain any charecters that gets evaluated by the shell. In my case it was a ) and a &
After escaping those with backslash: \) and \& it worked:

After searching for prefix 'DMI' we found 68 rooms.
After searching for prefix 'SKG' we found 69 rooms.