[Coco] pyDriveWire Q

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Thu Apr 30 02:15:22 EDT 2020


On Wednesday 29 April 2020 21:02:17 Christopher R. Hawks wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:55:19 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > Drivewire has died, can't find the RXTX libraries
> >
> > So trying to make pyDriveWire run, but there seems to be a total
> > lack of install and configure hot-to's. recommended to run it with
> > pypy, which has been installed, but the failure msg is, shall wwe
> > say, less than helpfull.
> > gene at coyote:/CoCo/pyDriveWire$ pypy pyDriveWire
> >   File "pyDriveWire", line 3
> >     python=$(which pypy)
> >            ^
> > SyntaxError: Unknown character
> > That don't mean jack to me.

Remove pypy from the cli, and that error goes away.  Left hand, meet 
right hand... Is there an assigned excedrin headache number for that?

> > Anybody have a clue where to find this stuff?
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
>     RXTX libraries not in "Drivewire4/native..." ??
> DriveWire4/native/Linux/i686/librxtxSerial.so (and buddies)

yup, got em.

> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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Cheers, stay well Christopher, Gene Heskett
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