[Coco] pyDriveWire v0.5a

[coco at jechar.ca]

I agree. One  should not have to be a Python programmer to  use the 
package.
I have not tried Docker but have heard it is quite popular, just never 
had the
need for it.

Charlie

On 2020-04-03 21:43, Walter Zambotti wrote:
> Sorry for late reply or if you have already resolved the issue.
> 
> You can specify which version of python is used by explicitly typing :
> 
> python2.7 or python3.6 instead of just python
> 
> If the script calls other scripts and is appears to be using the wrong
> version you can configure python to default to one or the other. Let
> me know if you want instructions.
> 
> Maybe pyDriveWire should be released as a docker package avoiding these 
> issues!
> 
> Walter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of 
> coco at jechar.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2020 2:31 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] pyDriveWire v0.5a
> 
> Michael
> 
> When I tried to run get-pip.py I realized that it depends on python2.7
> but my laptop is Linux Mint 19.3 and to much of that system requires
> python3 so for now I am out of luck making pyDriveWire work.
> 
> Fortunately I still have raspberry pi's where I have frozen the JAVA
> version security be damned but really ideal would a version that will
> just work like an appimage if that is possible or runable from some
> version of linux in a VM.
> 
> In any case Yes I am interested in testing the binary version when it
> becomes available.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> On 2020-03-22 11:37, Michael Furman wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I’m the author of pyDriveWire.  There was a hiatus in development in
>> between August and February— I simply got burned out.  I have started
>> to pick my projects back up this past week.  There are still many
>> plans in the works for pyDriveWire.  I’m not yet sure how far I will
>> get before the original Coco Fest date whether it will be a bug fix or
>> feature release.
>> 
>> At the moment there is not a binary distribution of pyDriveWire that
>> you can just download and run. I am working on this right now but it
>> is not ready for public release.  Unfortunately this means you must
>> deal with installing a few python packages to get pyDriveWire running.
>> I had written instructions for this at some point but somehow they got
>> modified and lost.
>> 
>> Regarding pip — it is the python package installer.  This must be
>> installed first.
>> 
>> 1. Download the pip installer script from
>> https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
>> 
>> 2. Install it by running: pypy get-pip.py
>> 
>> 3. After pip is installed and working you use it to install pyserial
>> using the original command that failed before: pypy -m pip install
>> pyserial
>> 
>> Lastly, I could use some help to test the binary package distributions
>> of pyDriveWire. Please let me know if you are interested.
>> 
>> —Mikey
>> 
>>> On Mar 21, 2020, at 15:10, Bruce W. Calkins
>>> <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My first question: is the module the programmer looking for where
>>> the programmer looking? You may have to move it to the propper 
>>> folder.
>>> 
>>> Bruce W.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 3/21/20 4:12 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Last summer I tryed pyDriveWire v0.5a but got nowhere with it so I
>>>> thought I would just wait a while and try version 0.6 when it came
>>>> out but it hasn't which makes me wonder if it is still being
>>>> developed.
>>>> 
>>>> I followed instructions for Ubuntu at:
>>>> https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire
>>>> 
>>>> but when I type:
>>>> sudo pypy -m pip install pyserial
>>>> 
>>>> I get the error:
>>>> 
>>>> /usr/bin/pypy: No module named pip
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know how to resolve such an error and weather a version
>>>> 0.6 is comeing soon ?
>>>> 
>>>> Charlie.
>>>> 
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