Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Error in using PyOpenGL with LAMPPS Pizza.py on Centos 4.4

[Thomas H. <th...@ct...>]

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James J. Ramsey schrieb:
> Pizza.py
> <http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/pizza.html> uses
> PyOpenGL for some of its visualization, but I can't
> get it to work. I'm using CentOS 4.4.
> 
> I compiled PyOpenGL myself, or at least I think I did.
> I untarred PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5.tar.gz, and ran
> "./setup.py build_ext --force install". Before I did
> that, I had installed the following:
> 
> * Python 2.3.4
> * Setuptools 0.6c5
> * Numeric Python, version 23.3
> * Togl, version 1.7
> * PIL 1.1.4
> * FreeGLUT 2.2.0
> 
> All but Togl and Setuptools were installed by RPMs
> compiled for CentOS. The "-devel" RPMs were installed
> as well. I installed Togl from tarball using the usual
> "./configure; make; make install", and "togl.h" ended
> up in /usr/include. (I checked.) Setuptools was
> installed from the setuptools-0.6c5-py2.3.egg package
> from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools.
> 
> The error messages I get from running Pizza.py are as
> follows:
> 
...
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0a5-py2.3.egg/OpenGL/logs.py",
> line 45, in logOnFail
>     loggedFunction.__name__ = function.__name__
> TypeError: readonly attribute
> 

The __name__ attribute of functions (or methods?) is readonly
in Python 2.3.  I think this has changed in 2.4 and 2.5; so
it may be a good idea to change PyOpenGL to tolerate this.

Thomas