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Hi Clemens,

I have been looking at your problem.

And I believe you are either running Arch, or there is possibly 
something wrong with your python install.

PEP-0394 http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ says that the 
"python" command should run the python2 interpreter installed on your 
system.  But in your case its running the python3 interpreter.  Which, 
according to PEP-0394 is not recommended but is what Arch linux does.

The recommended way of running python 3 is with the "python3" command.

Kicad scripting requires python2, so if you don’t have python2 
installed, or the "python" command runs the python3 interpreter and not 
python2 then bad things will happen, as you have been experiencing.

Try installing "python2" or making "python" point to it and see if your 
problems are resolved.

To bring kicad inline with that PEP we should not use "python" but 
specifically refer to the interpreter as "python2".

Steven


On 11/01/16 07:31, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > It gets more interesting when I add the path to pcbnew.py:
> > > >
> > > > $ PYTHONPATH=~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages ./pcbnew
> > > I believe you wanted to do:
> > >
> > > $ export PYTHONPATH=~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages ./pcbnew
> > You don't need the export when you write the variable before the
> > command like this. But I am unsure if the tilde behaves as you expect
> > here. One could try to use ${HOME} or actually write /home/username
> > instead of the tilde.
> Python internally resolves the ~/... properly to /home/<username>/...
> and puts it in the front of the search path:
>
> $ PYTHONPATH=~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages python
> Python 3.5.1 (default, Dec  7 2015, 12:58:09)
> [GCC 5.2.0] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > > import sys
> > > > print(sys.path)
> ['', '/home/admin/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python35.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.5', '/usr/lib/python3.5/plat-linux', '/usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages']
>
>
> > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >    File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
> > > >    File "/home/admin/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pcbnew.py", line 5055, in <module>
> > > >      class BOARD(BOARD_ITEM):
> > > >    File "/home/admin/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pcbnew.py", line 5710, in BOARD
> > > >      def GetViaByPosition(self, aPosition, aLayer=UNDEFINED_LAYER):
> > > > NameError: name 'UNDEFINED_LAYER' is not defined
> > > >
> > > > I am not into the python internals, but it seems something smells down that road.
> > > > We can just declare installing kicad with python support as non-root currently
> > > > as "unsupported". I am fine with that for now.
> > > At least you resolved you module load issue so that's a step in the
> > > right direction.  I don't know how thoroughly the Python module code has
> > > been tested so you may find some issues here and there.
> If somebody wants me to debug something in this area, let me know.
> Otherwise, I'll stop digging at this place and call it a day.
>
> Regards,
>
> Clemens
>
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