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Trouble using Javabridge with Python

I successfully installed javabridge using $pip3 install javabridge on my Mac's virtual environment. But when I tried to import javabridge in my python3 code, this is what I get:
import javabridge
Failed to run /usr/libexec/java_home, defaulting to best guess for Java
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/javabridge/locate.py", line 45, in find_javahome
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), "Libraries"),
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/bin/../lib/python3.6/posixpath.py", line 92, in join
genericpath._check_arg_types('join', a, *p)
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/bin/../lib/python3.6/genericpath.py", line 151, in _check_arg_types
raise TypeError("Can't mix strings and bytes in path components") from None
TypeError: Can't mix strings and bytes in path components
Any ideas on how to fix this? It looks like a problem with Python rather than javabridge?

Pardon the less-than-complete answer, but it has to do with the difference in strings between Python2 and Python3. Working in Python2.7 will at least get you around the problem for the moment. See this post for more background.

Installing Gumbo and its Python wrapper

I am trying to use Gumbo's python wrapper to parse HTML.
My operating system is Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. I am using Python2.7
I have cloned the latest version of Gumbo from github.
I followed the installation steps provided on Github.
The installation of the libraries, both the C library and the python wrapper, appeared to be successful ( No error message, both printed successful messages at the end )
C library final message:
Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/lib
Python wrapper message:
Installed
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gumbo-0.10.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for gumbo==0.10.1 Finished processing
dependencies for gumbo==0.10.1
The first problem I encountered was when I tried to open pydoc for gumbo, to better understand the library.
pydoc gumbo produced the following error:
problem in gumbo - <type 'exceptions.OSError'>: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gumbo-0.10.1-py2.7.egg/gumbo/libgumbo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Searching for the message yielded a single result.
It was not of much use to me.
Looking at the dist-packages directory, I noticed that libgumbo.so was not in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gumbo-0.10.1-py2.7.egg/gumbo/ . All other files ( soup-adapter.py, gumboc.py, etc ) where there however.
The installation of the C library placed libgumbo.so ( and some other libraries, like libgumbo.a libgumbo.la, etc ) in /usr/local/lib. So, as a work around, I created a simlink from .../dist-packages/gumbo-0.10.1-py2.7.egg/gumbo/ to /usr/local/lib.
This got pydoc gumbo to work.
I tried to import gumbo and soup-adapter in the interpreter after. I received the following error:
import soup_adapter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "soup_adapter.py", line 26, in <module>
import gumboc
File "gumboc.py", line 44, in <module>
os.path.dirname(__file__), _name_of_lib))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 443, in LoadLibrary
return self._dlltype(name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 365, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libgumbo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I am not sure how to proceed or how exactly to get gumbo to work.

How to Solve MagicException: "could not find any magic files" in s3cmd?

I am using s3cmd to upload files.
and it always upload .png file as "image/x-png" for MIME type.
So I decide to install "python-magic"
What I did here:
Installed Python 2.7 x86 on Windows 7 64bit, (since the manual of "python-magic" said only x86 will work) download from http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/
Installed Python Extention Setuptools http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#setuptools
Download & Installed https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic , use 'C:\Python27\python setup.py install'
Found the 3 files ( magic1.dll, zlib1.dll, regex2.dll, as required by python-magic ) and copied to Windows/System32
ok, at last s3cmd is using python-magic for MIME, BUT errors:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An unexpected error has occurred.
Please report the following lines to:
s3tools-bugs#lists.sourceforge.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Problem: MagicException: could not find any magic files!
S3cmd: 1.1.0-beta3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "T:\My\Downloads\s3cmd\s3cmd", line 1788, in <module>
from S3.S3 import S3
File "T:\My\Downloads\s3cmd\S3\S3.py", line 35, in <module>
magic_ = magic.Magic(mime=True)
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\magic.py", line 51, in __init__
magic_load(self.cookie, magic_file)
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\magic.py", line 138, in errorcheck
raise MagicException(err)
Please advice how or where can I get some magic files.

Ipython installation on 3.3 x64 errors

I don't have experience in downloading libraries, so any help is appreciated. I've got a fresh install of Python3.3 and am trying to get IPython for 64bit Windows 7. The IPython .exe installer ran fine and completed normally, but I can't access the program. I looked through their documentation, and tried the commands there, but
$ python setup.py install
returns invalid syntax, highlighting "setup". I thought the fix might be in the distribute library mentioned on the page, so I went to go try and get that first. However, using the script from distribute's install page revealed it's own errors, namely
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 541, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 537, in main
tarball = download_setuptools(download_base=options.download_base)
File "C:\Python33\distribute_setup.py", line 200, in download_setuptools
log.warn("Downloading %s", url)
File "C:\Python33\lib\distutils\log.py", line 47, in warn
self._log(WARN, msg, args)
File "C:\Python33\lib\distutils\log.py", line 30, in _log
if stream.errors == 'strict':
AttributeError: errors
I've been at it for a couple hours now, and I'm fresh out of ideas. What next?

It looks like you ran into Python bug 12967. You need to run distribute_setup.py outside of IDLE (i.e. in a command prompt).

have trouble with PIL to create PhotoImage object

I have Python 2.6 running on Fedora 13. I installed PIL 1.1.7, and I get the successful installed message in the Python prompt. I am able to import PIL.PhotoImage,but when I try to run the following, I get an error.
mgobj = PhotoImage(file=imgpath)
Stacktrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "viewer-tk.py", line 25, in <module>
imgobj = PhotoImage(file=imgpath) # now JPEGs work!
File "/home/Toshiba/vinpython/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PIL/ImageTk.py", line 116, in __init__
self.paste(image)
File "/home/Toshiba/vinpython/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PIL/ImageTk.py", line 181, in paste
import _imagingtk
ImportError: No module named _imagingtk
In the module ImageTk.py , I see _imagingtk being imported,but i am not sure how do it get that module.Help is greatly appreciated!!!

You need to install Tkinter python module as stated at this trac. But since it's an integral part of python distributions. Since you are using fedora take a look at this page where you can install Tkinter when it doesn't come along, even being for Fedora 3 I think it might help.