[cazzola di unimi it: Re: [gnumeric-list] Re: python plugins]

[User Hayden <bob statland org>]

Actually many Linux distros ahve already switched to Python 3 though 2
may be available in the repositories.

https://www.quora.com/When-is-it-estimated-that-Linux-distros-will-no-longer-include-Python-2-7

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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:15:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Walter Cazzola <cazzola di unimi it>
To: Jean Br?fort <jean brefort normalesup org>
Cc: gnumeric-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [gnumeric-list] Re: python plugins

Hi,
this wouldn't be a problem but the module gnumeric is missing also in pip2.
Even if deprecated and end-of-life since January python2 is still installed in
any linux box.

Walter

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Jean Br??fort wrote:

> 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 ?? 22:10 +0200, Walter Cazzola a ??crit :
> > 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.

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