Re: Visual won't load/run with python 2.6.5

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:41:49 +0100
Baker D.J. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thank you to those who helped me with the installation of the python
> visual module. It turns out that I forgot to install one of the
> dependencies. Having got visual to install I now find that it will
> not run -- error output shown below. Is this a bug in python (v2.6.5)
> or boost (v1.35.0), and more to the point is there a relatively easy
> workaround? Please could someone advise me on the best course of
> action. I have a sinking feeling that the advice will be to upgrade
> python.
> 
> Best -- David.
> 
> >>> import visual
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/local/software/rh52/python/2.6.5/gcc/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual/__init__.py",
> line 59, in <module> import cvisual AttributeError:
> 'Boost.Python.StaticProperty' object attribute '__doc__' is read-only

What dependencies did you install? It seems I cannot do a scratch build
for epel5 because there is no gtkglextmm package...

It was working for me with python 2.6, don't know if upgrading boost
would be a option for you...

-- 
Thomas Spura

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