#73 childsplay fails to start on linux/python 2.7.9

[Alois Schloegl]

Platform: Linux, Debian 8, Python 2.7.9
Application: Childsplay
Version: 2.6.5, 2.6.3
Activity: starting childsplay
Language:
Description of problem:

Starting of childsplay fails with the following error:

$ python childsplay.py
['childsplay.py']
No binary
<configparser.configparser instance="" at="" 0x7f359084cd40="">
DEBUG: parsing rc file /home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/lib/SPData/themes/childsplay/theme.rc
removed old logpath
/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/SQLTables.py:101: SAWarning: Unicode column received non-unicode default value.
Column('dt_target', Unicode(250), default='default'),\
/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/SQLTables.py:102: SAWarning: Unicode column received non-unicode default value.
Column('levelup_dlg', Unicode(4), default='true')\
/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/SQLTables.py:141: SAWarning: Unicode column received non-unicode default value.
Column('theme', Unicode(20), default='default'), \
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py:573: SAWarning: Unicode type received non-unicodebind param value.
param.append(processorskey)
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 32768 [50%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 32768 [50%] [on]
2016-01-01 19:47:20,430 - childsplay.childsplay - ERROR - unhandled exception in toplevel, traceback follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "childsplay.py", line 218, in <module>
session_id=session_id)
File "/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/SPMainCore.py", line 336, in init
bd = birthday.birthday(self.screen, self.backgr,name, age)
File "/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/birthday.py", line 73, in init
self.animation = Animation(self.animationlist)
File "/home/as/src/childsplay-2.6.5/birthday.py", line 38, in init
SPSpriteUtils.SPSprite.init(self, self.animationlist[0])
IndexError: list index out of range
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "childsplay.py", line 262, in <module>
mcgui.call_foreign_observers()
NameError: name 'mcgui' is not defined</module></module></configparser.configparser>

[Anonymous]

I can confirm the same problem on raspberypi 3 (Linux raspberry 4.4.38-v7+ #938 SMP Thu Dec 15 15:22:21 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux):

Childsplay version: 2.6.5
Platform :linux2
Python version: 2.7.9 (default, Sep 17 2016, 20:26:04)
Pygame version: 1.9.2a0
SDL version: 1.2.15
Sqlalchemy version: 0.9.8

[Anonymous]