Finding it very difficult to move pyexiv2 code from Python 2 to Python 3
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Wed Aug 19 04:15:01 EDT 2020
On 18/08/2020 20:05, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
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>>
> 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-
Robin Becker
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