Re: [Gimp-developer] Errors in python importing modules

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 09/18/18 08:28, Paco Garcia via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> All the scripts in python that worked in previous versions of gimp have
> stopped doing so in the new ones, the problem seems to be that there is
> some change when importing external classes, there has been some 
> change in
> the code that makes the call to external modules be different? In what 
> way
> do you have to use "import" to make it work? There is some way to 
> debug the
> scripts using "--verbose" that returns more information about the error
> than the one provided by the generic message "gimp-wire-read (): error"
> Thanks in advance for any help to solve the problems.
> Script that fails:
> http://www.arakne.es/en/programming/python/gimp-plugin-shape-creator-v8/

Plenty of Python script still work... There is a problem in Windows with 
Python plugins that have their own UI written with pygtk, where you now 
need to import gimp stuff before pyGTK. In the mentioned script, I see 
"import gtk, gimpui,..." and maybe these should be reversed.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1510