Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

[Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/11/24 23:27, Bob Marčan via users wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:33:30 +0000
> "Barry Scott" <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > On 30 Nov 2024, at 09:22, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 10:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:  
> > > > With reference to the Fedora environment, if a package is required to
> > > > be installed, would you recommend installing the repository version
> > > > or download it with pip?  
> > > >           
> > > The recommendation always was use your distro's packaging system if you
> > > wanted a stable system.  
> > >         
> > Yes
> >
> > > Of course you're screwed if what you want
> > > isn't available for it.  That leaves you with trying to create it, or
> > > influencing someone else into doing it.  
> > >         
> > The python way to isolate from the OS is to use the venv machinary.
> > I'm guessing from your response you are not familiar with it.
> >       
> How to build rpm:
>
> python setup.py bdist_rpm
>
>     
    The magazines said they had written their tutorials for python 3.12,
    as that was the most commonly used version of python. But my main
    question is, because I had issues where required functions for the
    tutorial weren't in the Fedora version of the package, which in my
    case was already installed as part of the python install, how do we
    know before installing a package rpm whether or not it is going to
    have the needed functions?
    
    Just off topic, I've also been in the situation where I was looking
    for euchre and canasta card games for linux (I already had them on
    my phone), where I found a canasta one but in wouldn't install in
    the version of Fedora I was using because of a missing file
    dependency (my memory is not good enough to remember the package
    name nor whether this was before or after my upgrade from F40 to
    F41). When I did a net search for what contained the file in
    question I found a page with details on what packages contained the
    file for various distributions of which Fedora was one. The page
    referenced a specific package name suffixed with a "D", but when I
    searched the repositories I found a package of the same name but
    suffixed with a "U" instead of a "D", and after installing the
    package to find what out what files it installed (because that
    information is not provided in Fedora anymore for uninstalled
    packages) I found that all the files installed by the package were
    also suffixed with a "U", so that package was never going to supply
    the required dependency. Would this have been a situation where the
    web site I found detailing the Fedora information was written for an
    older version of Fedora (which was unstated) or was the information
    just wrong and the required dependency has never existed in Fedora
    because of naming conventions?
    
    regards,
    Steve
    
>

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