[libhid-discuss] Installing Python wrappers from SVN

[Sarah Mount]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:02, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Sarah Mount wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:34, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 16, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Sarah Mount wrote:
>>>
>>>> Importing libhid.hid looks like it ought to work but actually gives
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>>>>> import libhid.hid
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>  File "/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/__init__.py", line
>>>> 11, in <module>
>>>>   import _hid
>>>> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/_hid.so:
>>>> undefined symbol: assert
>>>
>>> That's a very odd error. "assert" should be a preprocessor #define. What
>>> if
>>> you cd to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid, then run python and
>>> try
>>> "import hid"?
>>>
>>
>> Same thing:
>
> I am pretty sure I did not see this on 8.04, and I don't have an 8.10 box
> available to test.
>
> I'd say to file a bug on Launchpad, but that won't be helpful if you didn't
> see that error with the original Ubuntu package.
>
> Anyone else on the list running Ubuntu?
>

Thanks Charles. I notice that the python-hid package on the Ubuntu
repositories is set up quite differently to the SVN. dpkg -L says this
about it:


/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/python-hid
/usr/share/doc/python-hid/README
/usr/share/doc/python-hid/copyright
/usr/share/doc/python-hid/examples
/usr/share/doc/python-hid/examples/test_libhid.py
/usr/share/doc/python-hid/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/python-support
/usr/share/python-support/python-hid
/usr/share/python-support/python-hid/hid
/usr/share/python-support/python-hid/hid/_hid.a
/usr/share/python-support/python-hid/hid/_hid.la
/usr/share/python-support/python-hid/hid/__init__.py
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python-support
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid/python2.5
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid/python2.5/hid
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid/python2.5/hid/_hid.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid/python2.5/hid/_hid.so.0
/usr/lib/python-support/python-hid/python2.5/hid/_hid.so


Which doesn't include files such as hid.py, so it looks like the
Canonical people have completely repackaged everything.

Thanks,

Sarah

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