Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> writes:
>
> > Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:54:17PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >> > I have an OKI scanner which has a neat little linux app for running it
> >> > from a linux desktop. However it hasn't been updated from python 2.7
> >> > days and I'm looking at ways I might get it to run on my recently
> >> > upgraded Debian 12 system.
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere is maintaining a Python 2
> >> compatible interpreter so I'd probably install that from source
> >> somewhere and use that as the interpreter just for this one app.
> >>
> >> It is my understanding that no other project can call itself "Python"
> >> due to trademark laws so forks of Python 2 have to call themselves
> >> something else. One example would be Tauthon:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
> >>
> >> I have never tried it.
> >>
> >> It seems like a lot of work for what must be itself an abandoned app
> >> (otherwise it would have Python 3 support by now).
> >>
> > It's a fairly old printer but it is still supported (drivers etc. for
> > windows 11) but they've never updated the Linux scanner driver, I
> > don't suppose there's that much demand for it. It's a very neat
> > little app though so I'd like to keep using it.
>
> The following suggestion is almost certainly overkill and probably more
> work to set up than simply porting the application to Python 3.
>
I would if I could, but there are .so files built for Python 2 that
don't work in Python 3, my notes say:-
So I tried to convert it all to Python 3, I had converted all my own code
(including
some Gtk stuff) to Python 3 so it seemed it should be possible. All went
well until:-
File "/usr/libexec/okimfputl.new/guicom.py", line 66, in <module>
import pyscand
ImportError: /usr/libexec/okimfpdrv/pyscand.so: undefined symbol:
_Py_ZeroStruct
This is because the module pyscand.so has been compiled for Python 2 and
produces
the above error when you try using it from Python 3, since I don't have the
source
code for pyscand.so I'm stuck.
There isn't by any chance a tool/utility somewhere for converting
Python 2 .so files to Python 3 is there?
--
Chris Green
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