Re: [gtk-osx-users] ImportError: No module named gi.

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

> On Mar 31, 2019, at 10:22 AM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:
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> > On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:49 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
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> > > Le 31 mars 2019 à 16:24, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> a écrit :
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> > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 2:03 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
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> > > > Does "gi" exist for python 2? How to get it?
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> > > Build pygobject3 with python2. pygobject is for Gtk2.
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> > > Python2 goes out of support at the end of *this year*. It's way past time that you covert your app to 
> > > python3. It's not hard, most apps can be converted in a day or two.
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> > Thanks John for the clarification, I thought pygobject3 was for Python 3 :-(
> > I made this misunderstanding because I got this error with Python 2:
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> > *** Building pygobject3 *** [4/4]
> > python setup.py build
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "setup.py", line 29, in <module>
> >   import pkg_resources
> > ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
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> > What is going on?
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> It's entirely possible that python2 support has been pulled from pygobject3. If that's the case then you'll 
> need to roll back to an older version of gtk-osx, modify and use local modulesets with an earlier version 
> of pygobject3, or update your application to python3.

README.rst says it supports python2, so I Googled pkg_resources. It's part of python and when I run 
/usr/bin/python and say import pkg_resources it happily does so. Seems that you've broken your python 
installation.

Regards,
John Ralls