[Visualpython-users] VPython on Ubuntu Karmic ... again ...

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

I'm now leaping due to other concerns on my laptop ahead to Karmic already. 
And I'm also experiencing problems with the provided python-visual 5.11 
packages, as well as with the build resulting from dpkg-buildpackage from the 
source package.

However the problem seems to be somewhat different from the one stated in the 
Karmic bug report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-visual/+bug/408663

The symptoms are different from Tony/Guenter's filing/reporting. I'm getting 
an attribute error on executing a sample:

guy@mountpaku:/usr/share/doc/python-visual/examples$ python orbit.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "orbit.py", line 1, in <module>
    from visual import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/visual/__init__.py", line 59, in 
<module>
    import cvisual
AttributeError: 'Boost.Python.StaticProperty' object attribute '__doc__' is 
read-only


Any ideas? This seems to be much more low level, so I'm actually in doubt that 
5.12 or later would have this problem solved, as I think that they mostly 
targeted the API and internal implementation rather than the wrapping as it 
is.

Guy

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