New to Python and understanding problem

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Mon Jan 29 13:29:20 EST 2018


Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Hello *,
> 
> because I am runing into problems with SOME python based programs, I the
> this as opportunity to learn python (after ASM, C,  BaSH,  CP/M,  COBOL,
> JS, PHP and perl).
> 
> 
> OK, I tried to install "blueman" (Bluetooth Manager) on  my  Debian  9.2
> (Stretch system and discovered a problem:
> 
> ----[ c 'blueman-applet' ]----------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./blueman-applet", line 15, in <module>
>     from blueman.Functions import create_logger, create_parser,
> set_proc_title
> ImportError: No module named 'blueman'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So ist does not find the module and this are the fist 16  lines  of  the
> python script:
> 
> ----[ '/usr/bin/blueman-applet' ]---------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> # coding=utf-8
> 
> import sys
> import os
> import signal
> import logging
> 
> # support running uninstalled
> _dirname = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
> if 'BLUEMAN_SOURCE' in os.environ:
>     sys.path = [_dirname, os.path.join(_dirname, 'module', '.libs')] +
> sys.path
>     os.environ["GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR"] = os.path.join(_dirname, "data")
> 
> from blueman.Functions import create_logger, create_parser, set_proc_title
> from blueman.main.Applet import BluemanApplet
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I think, that I have found the error here:
> 
> sys.path = [_dirname, os.path.join(_dirname, 'module', '.libs')] +
> sys.path
> 
> because there is written in
> 
> ----[ '/usr/lib/python-3.5/os.py' ]-------------------------------------
> To get a full path (which begins with top) to a file or directory in
> dirpath, do os.path.join(dirpath, name).
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hence, os.path.join() has only 2 parameters and not 3.

os.path.join() accepts one or more parameters as you can verify in the 
interactive interpreter:

$ python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 28 2017, 16:41:13) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.path.join()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: join() missing 1 required positional argument: 'a'
>>> os.path.join("foo")
'foo'
>>> os.path.join("foo", "bar")
'foo/bar'
>>> os.path.join("foo", "bar", "baz")
'foo/bar/baz'

> 
> The module "blueman" is a subdirectory and the full path is
> 
>     /usr/lib/python-3.5/site-packages/blueman
> 
> So, how can I correct this problem?

Random idea: Did you set the BLUEMAN_SOURCE environment variable? If so, try 
to unset it. If that doesn't help insert the line

print(sys.path)

into the blueman-applet script right after the line 

import sys

This should print a list of paths that Python searches for modules. Does 
this list contain the 

/usr/lib/python-3.5/site-packages

directory? If it doesn't, what's actually in that list? 

> And then here is anoter thing which I do not understand becasue I have
> not found it in the Tutorial:
> 
> What do the [ ... ] mean or what function is it?

If it occurs in Python source code it is a list literal

>>> a = [1, 10, 100]
>>> type(a)
<class 'list'>

or a list comprehension

>>> b = [x*x for x in a]
>>> b
[1, 100, 10000]

Both should be mentioned in every Python tutorial.




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