some tests passing

rowers/middleware.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from django.utils import timezone
 from rowers.models import Workout, PowerTimeFitnessMetric, Rower
 import datetime
-from utils import myqueue
+from rowers.utils import myqueue
 import django_rq
 queue = django_rq.get_queue('default')
 from rowers.tasks import handle_updatefitnessmetric,handle_sendemail_expired

rowers/tasks.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 """ Background tasks done by Celery (develop) or QR (production) """
-from __future__ import absolute_import
 import os
 import time
 import gc

rowers/views/statements.py

@@ -819,12 +819,23 @@ def get_blog_posts(request):
             image_url = ''
             
 
+        try:
             title = postdata['title']['rendered'].encode(
                 'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
 
             excerpt = postdata['excerpt']['rendered'].encode(
                 'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
 
+            ptester = re.compile('\<p\>(\w.*)\<\/p\>')
+            excerpt_first = ptester.match(excerpt).group(1)
+        except TypeError:
+            title = postdata['title']['rendered'].encode(
+                'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace').decode('utf-8')
+
+            excerpt = postdata['excerpt']['rendered'].encode(
+                'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace').decode('utf-8')
+
+
             ptester = re.compile('\<p\>(\w.*)\<\/p\>')
             excerpt_first = ptester.match(excerpt).group(1)