I'm trying to get my Box2D code running fine on all 3 plaforms. It's working fine on Windows for me, I simply installed Python 2.5, set my env path, and then downloaded PyBox2D from the following location:
http://code.google.com/p/pybox2d/downloads/list
And installed. At that point, it just seems to work, at least based on my tests. One caveat however is that when I run the testbed app pygame_main.py it fails... But perhaps it was just not updated from a pybox2d change or something like that...
On Linux, how to do this is tricky, and more so on how to actually distribute a game... We've installed Python 2.5, and checked out the trunk of pybox2d from svn, built it and ran the setup. However when we actually try to make a world
File "box2dtest.py", line 28, in main world = box2d.b2World(worldAABB, gravity, doSleep)
TypeError: init() takes at most 3 arguments (4 given)
This is an error I got when I tried to build the game to Python 2.7 as well. I am not sure what to do from here to be honest.
I could toy with the idea of giving up on getting it to work on Linux if I could be sure it worked fine on Mac. I would love it to run perfectly on all systems :) Honestly, in my idealized world, the setup for the game would be simple. I'm just looking for people to help me figure out if I am running into a dead end, or if there is hope for getting this working. :)
Let me know what other information I can provide to help describe the problem. My partner set it up on linux so that is why my description is not too verbose on the linux side.
It would have helped to have some more context for the code. On code line 28, you call b2World with to many parameters. The examples/hello.py in the distribution calls b2World() like this:
b2World(gravity=(0,-10), doSleep=True)
so from the variables names you pass a parameter, I guess you have to leave out worldAABB.
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So, I've been a dev for about 3 years, primarily working in TypeScript and NodeJS. I'm trying to broaden my skillset by learning python (and eventually expanding my learning of Computer Vision, Machine learning, etc.) but I feel incredibly frustrated by trying to get Python to work consistently on my machine. Surely I'm doing something wrong, but I just can't really understand what it is.
I've run into these problems mostly when using ML packages (TensorFlow, Whisper, OpenCV (although I was eventually able to resolve this), so I don't know if it's related to M1 support of one of the common dependencies, etc.
My current understanding of python is that:
M1 support of python is version dependent at best.
venv is the only environment manager I should need to use
I should use pyenv to install python versions so as to not conflict with os-installed python (macos dependencies)
I'll use the latest project I'm working on as an example.
My Machine and Environment
Mac M1 Pro, MacOS Monterey 12.6
pyenv 2.3.9
Python 3.7.13
Fish Shell version 3.5.1
My general workflow to get a project started:
Create virtual environment using venv
python3 -m venv <some_environment_name>
Open created directory using VSCode, and activate the virtual environment
Here is where I encounter my first issue, which seems to be persistent.
➤ source /Users/paal/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish
functions: Function '_old_fish_prompt' does not exist
~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish (line 18):
functions -c _old_fish_prompt fish_prompt
^
in function 'deactivate' with arguments 'nondestructive'
called on line 30 of file ~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish
from sourcing file ~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish
(Type 'help functions' for related documentation)
functions: Function 'fish_prompt' does not exist
~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish (line 47):
functions -c fish_prompt _old_fish_prompt
^
from sourcing file ~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish
(Type 'help functions' for related documentation)
fish: Unknown command: _old_fish_prompt
~/src/whisper_transcription/bin/activate.fish (line 71):
_old_fish_prompt
^
in function 'fish_prompt'
in command substitution
(whisper_transcription)
So, what I do to resolve this is add the following if statement to the fish.config file.
if type -q $program
_old_fish_prompt
end
Looking at GitHub issues, this seems to be a persistent issue for fish shell and this seems to at least temporarily resolve it.
Or, I just switch to ZSH.
OK, so with that resolved I move on. The environment is activated, I'm using ZSH now, and I can successfully run a python script that prints "hello world" to the console.
Then comes the nightmare of installing any packages. It seems like any project I start has some weird edge case of compatibility issues. Between M1 processors, Python Versions, builds not working correctly, etc.
for example..
import whisper
... # rest of file
This with any other code or even by itself throws the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
import whisper
File "/Users/paal/src/whisper_transcription/lib/python3.7/site-packages/whisper/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
from .decoding import DecodingOptions, DecodingResult, decode, detect_language
File "/Users/paal/src/whisper_transcription/lib/python3.7/site-packages/whisper/decoding.py", line 514
if prefix := self.options.prefix:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
This appears to be some problem with the Python Version. From what I understand, the := operator isn't valid syntax until Python 3.8. However, dependencies of whisper (PyTorch) only seems to be supported up to version 3.7.9
So, you can see, it seems like I just end up in these bizarre circular problems where some dependency of some package I want to use isn't supported by either the platform or the current python version, and they seem basically unsolvable (at least with my current knowledge of python)
Why is this seemingly so complicated? I'm clearly doing something wrong here, and obviously I'm out of my comfort and knowledge zone, but these issues feel very daunting and opaque, and difficult to actually troubleshoot this in any consistent or clear way.
Is there a resource that makes this stuff more clear? Is Python development on M1 chips just this broken at the moment? How can I get past these seemingly basic issues to start actually learning?
I'm not necessarily looking for a solution to this specific problem here, but if theres general advice about environment management and how to make things work somewhat reliably, I'm fine troubleshooting. I just feel like every time I start trying to learn, I end up in these rabbit holes that take hours and hours to fix and sometimes don't even really resolve things.
So I am trying to write some python code that will do two things, that seem to be mutually exclusive on my machine. My PC's host operating system is windows and I run Kali-Linux in WSL2 when I need to test my code on Linux. My code's main function creates two separate multiprocessing.Process objects, assigning a different thread, starting them both one after the other and then calling for them both to be joined. The plan is to allow each to run a simple server application simultaneously on different ports. This does not work when running python3 in PowerShell, as it seems to require access to os.fork() which doesn't work in said environment. When I found this out I pivoted to running in WSL2 which worked fantastically, for a time. After a while of experimenting with some ideas I decided to take some of my code and spin it off into its own file, which I placed in its own 'Libs' folder. WSL2 however, was unable to import this new file, instead giving me the exception ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'NetStuff'. I originally had added:
sys.path.append('./Libs')
as has worked for me in the past, however when I found that WSL2 was unable to find my module, I printed out sys.path and it revealed that rather than appending my $current_working_directory/Libs like I intended, I was just appending the literal string, which wasn't useful. I then decided to try:
sys.path.append(str(pathlib.Path().resolve()) + '/Libs')
which at the bare minimum shows up as I would expect in sys.path. This, however still didn't work, python was unable to find my module and would unceremoniously crash every time. This led me to try something else, I ran my code in python3 under PowerShell again, which had no issue importing my module, it did still crash due to lacking os.fork() but the import gave no issues. Confused and annoyed I opened my code in IDLE 3.9 which, for some inexplicable reason, was able to import the file, and seemingly use os.fork(). The only major issue with running in IDLE is that it is seemingly incapable of understanding ascii colour escape characters. Given that the goal is to run my code in bash, and ideally also PowerShell, I am not satisfied with this as a solution. I returned to trying to fix the issue in WSL2 by adding my module to /home/Noah/bin, and appending this directory to sys.path, but this has still not so much as given me a new symptom.
I am utterly at a loss at this point. none of the fixes I know off hand are working, and neither are the new ones I've found online. I can't tell if I'm just missing something fundamental about python or if I'm running into a bug, if it's the latter, i can't seem to find other people with the same issue. As a result of my confusion and frustration I am appealing to you, kind users of stackoverflow.
The following is the snippet that is causing me problems in WSL2:
path0 = ('/home/Noah/bin')
path1 = (str(pathlib.Path().resolve()) + '/Libs')
sys.path.append(path0)
sys.path.append(path1)
print(sys.path)
import NetStuff
The following is output of print(sys.path) in WSL2:
['/mnt/c/Users/Noah/VSCodeRepos/Python/BlackPack', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/noah/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages', '/home/Noah/bin', '/mnt/c/Users/Noah/VSCodeRepos/Python/BlackPack/Libs']
The following is the error being thrown by WSL2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/c/Users/Noah/VSCodeRepos/Python/BlackPack/BlackPackServer.py", line 21, in <module>
import NetStuff
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'NetStuff'
I am specifically hoping to fix the issue with WSL2 at the moment as I am fairly certain that getting the code to run on PowerShell is merely going to require rewriting my code so that it doesn't rely on os.fork(). Thank you for reading my problem, and if I left out any information that you would like to see just tell me and I'll add it in an edit!
Edit: I instantly realized that I should specify that my host machine is running windows 10.
So I have been debugging this bug for the last 10 hours. The problem is that I wrote a program that get's data from a usb scope and processes it, but after I frooze it using pyinstaller it would crash without any error. I made test program and by adding print statements throughout my code I traced down the bug to this one line:
y = signal.convolve(prev_values,filter_b,mode ='valid')
I tried replacing this line with:
y = np.convolve(prev_values,filter_b,mode ='valid')
but that also crashes. I tried replacing the line with
y = np.ones(len(prev_values)-len(filter_b)+1)
and everything is fine. The command I use to freeze my app is:
pyinstaller --log-level=DEBUG --add-binary "./dlls/*;./" --add-binary "./interface.ui;./" --add-binary "./settings.yaml;./" "app.py"
The problem now is that I have now idea where this goes wrong. Is it python having some memory issues or something? Or could both numpy and scipy have a bug that causes this? Or is it something with pyinstaller? Any tips are welcome. Also if you know a good alternative to do a convolution for numpy and signal.
this np.convolve function was also essencial for my app and also was giving me some problems while using pyinstaller. What happened is that my numpy library was up to date while my pyinstaller wasn't, so i think all the hooks, that called the aproppriate dlls and etc to make everything work, were wrong. I've tried to manually fix it adding all the missing stuff manually, but in the end updating pyinstaller made everything work without any further issue.
No python expert here, but I hope updating everything helps you.
I am attempting to use the PyMultinest package. The full error text I am encountering is AttributeError:dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, run): symbol not found in the __getitem__() function in ctypes/__init__.py. I'll include more text and code below, but I am mostly trying to understand what this error is telling me - my Google Fu is apparently lacking, and the StackExchange questions I have seen relating to this error seem to be hyper-focused on solving a specific instance of this error. So - What is this error trying to tell me is wrong?
More context. I attempt to execute the PyMultinest (PMN) package as directed in the PMN documentation. PMN is, effectively, a Python wrapper for a C program. Running PMN requires a fair bit of setup code (several ancillary functions need to be defined, as well as a host of variables), which I'm not including here by default because it's ... a lot, but I can if needed. The PMN execution line I use is
pmn.run(Loglike, Prior, ndims, n_live_points=1000, n_params=n_params, outputfiles_basename='./'+ProjectName+'/temp_', resume=False, verbose=True)
This returns the error traceback
File "[redacted]", line 139, in <module>
pmn.run(Loglike, Prior, ndims, n_live_points=1000, n_params=n_params, outputfiles_basename='./'+ProjectName+'/temp_', resume=False, verbose=True)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymultinest/run.py", line 254, in run
lib.run(*args_converted)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/ctypes/__init__.py", line 386, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/ctypes/__init__.py", line 386, in __getitem__
func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, run): symbol not found
If it helps, I have determined that the name variable being passeed through self.__getitem__(), and thus into self._FuncPtr(), is run. Although, that might be obvious looking at the AttributeError message.
I am running Python 3.8 (as shown above) on a MacOS machine. Last summer, I was able to execute PMN on this machine using extremely similar code to that which I am using now. I am currently trying to optimize my code from last summer, which is why I'm surprised it isn't simply "working".
So far my attempts at fixing this have been mostly centered on reinstalling PMN. I have done a clean install (pip uninstall/pip install) of the PMN package, as well as following the PMN documentation to rebuild the C portion of the package. I have included the source directories of the C software in my Path variables - or at least, I tried to, I am assuming I was successful, but I'm not very familiar with Macs.
Ultimately, I just wish I understood what Python was telling me with this error better. It would help me direct my own attempts at solving the issue. I suspect it is saying "We don't know where to find this 'run' command you're asking for," in which case I need to figure out why my Path variable changes aren't working. Am I on the right path?
Some hints how to resolve this are given in these issues:
https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/PyMultiNest/issues/160
https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/PyMultiNest/issues/163
It is important to cleanly recompile (empty build folder) when the environment changes, so that cmake recognises changed libraries and compilers.
Check if you are running everything with python3 and not python (works as python 2.x is you have both version 2 and 3 installed)
Check is all the PyMultiNest python files are rewritten in python 3 style, e.g. $ print "something" becomes $ print("something")
My supervisor was accidentally running on python 2.7 and got the same error, so your error might as well be due to mismatch of python version usages.
Run command flutter pub cache clean and flutter clean and after that run flutter pub get now relaunch your emulator it worked for me.
I use Anaconda on a Windows 10 laptop with Python 2.7 and Spark 2.1. Built a deep learning model using Sknn.mlp package. I have completed the model. When I try to predict using the predict function, it throws an error. I run the same code on my Mac and it works just fine. Wondering what is wrong with my windows packages.
'NoneType' object is not callable
I verified input data. It is numpy.array and it does not have null value. Its dimension is same as training one and all attributed are the same. Not sure what it can be.
I don't work with Python on Windows, so this answer will be very vague, but maybe it will guide you in the right direction. Sometimes there are cross-platform errors due to one module still not being updated for the OS, frequently when another related module gets an update. I recall something happened to me with a django application which required somebody more familiar with Windows to fix it for me.
Maybe you could try with an environment using older versions of your modules until you find the culprit.
I finally solved the problem on windows. Here is the solution in case you face it.
The Theano package was faulty. I installed the latest version from github and then it threw another error as below:
RuntimeError: To use MKL 2018 with Theano you MUST set "MKL_THREADING_LAYER=GNU" in your environment.
In order to solve this, I created a variable named MKL_Threading_Layer under user environment variable and passed GNU. Reset the kernel and it was working.
Hope it helps!