Finding it very difficult to move pyexiv2 code from Python 2 to Python 3
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Wed Aug 19 04:21:59 EDT 2020
Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 18/08/2020 20:05, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
> .............
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Two solutions:
> > 1. Install exiv2-dev and py3exiv2 with pip
> > $ sudo apt-get install libexiv2-dev
> > $ sudo pip3 install py3exiv2
> >
> > 2. Install my ppa
> > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-vandevyvre/vvv
> > $ sudo apt-get update
> > $ sudo apt-get install python3-exiv2
> >
> > Don't change your old code for pyexiv2, the names of the modules are
> > unchanged, your old code should work as it.
> >
> > Off course old strings are now unicode.
> >
> > Vincent (AKA VinsS)
> >
> I haven't tried #2 (I use Arch), but I did try 1) in a python 3.8 virtual
> env. I ended up getting into a problem with boost
>
> > src/exiv2wrapper.hpp:34:10: fatal error: boost/python.hpp: No such file or directory
> > 34 | #include "boost/python.hpp"
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > compilation terminated.
> > error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>
> so obviously I need to install some version of boost libs or Boost.Python etc etc. Gave up :(
> -luddite-ly yrs-
OP here, yes, that's exactly where I got to as well! :-)
I've used Vincent's PPA before so I took that route and it worked
flawlessly, my code is now working again in 20.04 running Python 3.
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Chris Green
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