Re: [Visualpython-users] faces name error

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:16:25PM -0400, Randall A. Jones wrote:
> Hello,
>   I am using the Linux version of vpython.  I have had great luck and
> much fun with it, except...  there seems to be no faces object.
> Python reports:
>   "NameError: faces"
> when I try to instantiate a "faces" object.
> (as a result, both "faces" demos don't work either)
> 
> The shared object cvisualmodule.so has symbols present for the other
> objects (cylinder, sphere,...) but no symbols in the file for "faces",
> which means it wasn't there at compile/link time.
> 
> Is this supposed to be the case?  Is there a version with "faces" for
> Linux?
> 
> I'm using python-visual-2001.01.22-2.i386.rpm

Hmm, that's a very out-of-date RPM which predates the faces primitive. If
new packages haven't been put up on the website (the date should be July
2001) then just compile cvisualmodule.so yourself (get the 'cvisual' cvs
module).


Ari