Re: Cannot get goocanvas on Fedora 26 to work using pygobject

[Damon Chaplin <damonachaplin gmail com>]

On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 20:25 +0200, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to get goocanvas to work on Fedora 26 but I only get it to
> work with PyGTK, but not with pygobject.
>
>
> Packages installed:
> python3-gobject.x86_64 : Python 3 bindings for GObject Introspection
> gobject-introspection.x86_64 : Introspection system for GObject-based
> libraries
> pygoocanvas.x86_64 : GooCanvas python bindings
>
>
> with pip and pip3 pgi is installed
>
> > > > import gi
> > > > gi.require_version('Gtk','3.0')
> > > > from gi.repository import GooCanvas
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 879, in _find_spec
> AttributeError: 'DynamicImporter' object has no attribute 'find_spec'
>
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 127,
> in find_module
>     'introspection typelib not found' % namespace)
> ImportError: cannot import name GooCanvas, introspection typelib not
> found

That looks like the problem. The introspection library should be in
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0 (in Fedora 21 it is).
Try doing: rpm -ql goocanvas2

I don't know python very well so can't help much more.

Damon