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

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

> On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> > Le 1 avr. 2019 à 23:25, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> a écrit :
> >
> > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 10:22 AM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:49 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Le 31 mars 2019 à 16:24, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> a écrit :
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 2:03 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does "gi" exist for python 2? How to get it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Build pygobject3 with python2. pygobject is for Gtk2.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks John for the clarification, I thought pygobject3 was for Python 3 :-(
> > > > I made this misunderstanding because I got this error with Python 2:
> > > >
> > > > *** 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
> > > >
> > > > What is going on?
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Hello John,
>
> When I used Python installed by macOS it is ok:
> $ which python
> /usr/bin/python
> $ python
> Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct  6 2017, 22:29:07) 
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > > import pkg_resources
> > > > ^D
>
> But not with Python installed formerly with jhbuild:
> $ PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
> $ jhbuild shell
> Prefix: /usr/local/xnadalib-2018
> Entered jhbuild shell, type 'exit' to return.
> [JH]$ which python
> /usr/local/xnadalib-2018/bin/python
> [JH]$ python
> Python 2.7.14 (default, Sep 13 2018, 10:35:57) 
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.2)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > > import pkg_resources
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
> > > >
>
> So I uninstalled python and installed it again.
> I have now a different error:
> *** Building pygobject3 *** [4/4]
> python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "setup.py", line 30, in <module>
>    from setuptools import setup
> ImportError: No module named setuptools

Pascal,

Drop to the shell and run
python -m ensurepip

to install setuptools and pip.

Control-d to return and rerun the build.

Regards,
John Ralls