[Coco] pyDriveWire v0.5a

[Walter Zambotti]

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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