Re: python plugins

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Hi,

The Python support in gnumeric is limited to Python-2, it can't work
with Python-3.

Regards,
Jean

Le jeudi 02 avril 2020 à 22:10 +0200, Walter Cazzola a écrit :
> Dear All,
> I'm a long time user of gnumeric, today I would like to add a quite
> simple
> python plugin that I'm writing but I have hard time to:
>    - find the gnumeric module that all the examples I found around
> import
>    - find some recent tutorial/documentation about python plugin
> development
>
> I already did some attempt without much luck. My test is:
>
>     from Gnumeric import GnumericError, GnumericErrorVALUE
>     import Gnumeric
>     import string
>
>     def test_func(coord):
>       return coord
>
>     test_functions = {
>        'test_func' : test_func
>     }
>
> stored in ~/.gnumeric/1.12.46/plugins/test/test_func.py with the
> plugin.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <plugin id="Gnumeric_ExamsPlugin">
>       <information>
>               <name>Python Test Plugin</name>
>               <description>A test for python plugins.</description>
>       </information>
>       <loader type="Gnumeric_PythonLoader:python">
>               <attribute name="module_name" value="test"/> 3
>       </loader>
>       <services>
>               <service type="function_group" id="test"> 4
>                       <category>Local Python</category>
>                       <functions>
>               <function name="test_func"/>
>                       </functions>
>               </service>
>       </services>
> </plugin>
>
> but I can't compile it because of the import (no module is found) and
> when I
> try to select it in tools→plugins I get the error:
>
>    Error while activating plugin "Python Test Plugin".
>    Error while activating plugin dependencies.
>    Couldn't find plugin with ID="Gnumeric_PythonLoader".
>
> To me seems quite evident that the module gnumeric is not in my
> system but I
> can't find it neither through pip/pip3, through "dnf search" nor
> googling it.
>
> I'm on a fedora linux box with gnumeric 1.12.46, python 3.7
>
> Any help is really appreciated.