[arch-general] python3 thoughts

[Allan McRae]

On 24/11/10 17:35, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 01:32 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Alper KANAT<tunix at raptiye.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> That's nonsense.
>>
>> what is?  py3k is nothing more than the completion and/or significant
>> advancement of several items that began in the 2.x tree; this is not
>> new information.
>>
>>> It's correct that Arch is an advanced user distribution but
>>> you can't expect everyone to workaround each py application. Not everyone
>>> that use Arch are developers.
>>
>> the thread seems to be more focused on _developers_, and my response
>> reflects this sentiment.
>>
>> i wouldn't expect any user to fix<insert>  application, even myself.
>> what i would expect however, is that they can figure out how to run it
>> under python2.
>>
>> C Anthony
>>
>
> C Anthony,
>
> 	That does seem to be where some of us are stuck... I can change the
> #!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/bin/python2 no sweat, but then when the apps throw
> further module errors, that is where I get stuck. For example in
> /usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py, running the script with python2 as the
> executable results in the following error:
>
> 01:32 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms>  sudo ./data/updt-sign-repo.sh openSUSE_11.0/
>          sqlite metadata tables found -->  updating
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 29, in<module>
>      import createrepo
> ImportError: No module named createrepo
>
> 	So for some reason the change has caused python2 to lose all its modules and I
> know not how to make the find them again :(
>

Have you rebuild whatever package provides "createrepo" to have its 
modules available for python-2.7?  They are probably still sitting in a 
python-26 directory...   This would have happened with or without the 
python3 transition.

Allan