Bug#710162: whichwayisup: fails to start because of pygame.error: Invalid joystick axis

[Markus Koschany]

Package: whichwayisup
Version: 0.7.9-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

whichwayisup fails to start with the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_game.py", line 13, in <module>
    main.main()
  File "/usr/share/games/whichwayisup/lib/main.py", line 103, in main
    end_trigger = game.run(screen, level_name, world.index, score, joystick)
  File "/usr/share/games/whichwayisup/lib/game.py", line 263, in run
    inputs = parse_inputs(joystick)
  File "/usr/share/games/whichwayisup/lib/game.py", line 143, in parse_inputs
    axis0 = joystick.get_axis(0)
pygame.error: Invalid joystick axis

After some investigation i have found out that the game, respectively
pygame, detects my USB keyboard as a joystick. Since a keyboard
obviously does not have axes, whichwayisup throws an exception.

I believe that the following check should be sufficient in game.py
line 141

if joystick != None and joystick.get_numaxes() != 0:   # Parse joystick input

I'm going to implement the patch and prepare a new revision.

Regards,

Markus


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages whichwayisup depends on:
ii  python           2.7.3-5
ii  python-ogg       1.3+repack-5+b2
ii  python-pygame    1.9.1release+dfsg-8
ii  ttf-dejavu-core  2.33+svn2514-3

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