Comments on: Pwytter 0.8

By: Sjors

Sjors — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:15:24 +0000

On Ubuntu I also needed to do:
sudo apt-get install python-simplejson

Also, as John suggested:
sudo cp pwCache.py* /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.5.egg/

That worked. I also copied the media and theme directories but I don’t see any difference.

Keep up the good work,

Sjors

By: Pierre-Jean Coudert

Pierre-Jean Coudert — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:13:35 +0000

@Jon: I’m working on a better setup for linux.

@Mark: This bug is corrected in the SVN trunk. The 0.9 release should be out soon !

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:31:32 +0000

Started to use your program recently. Like it but when I went to start it up the second day of use I got an error msg telling me to read the pwytter.exe.log

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “pwytter.py”, line 964, in ?
File “Tkinter.pyc”, line 1448, in wm_iconbitmap
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap “media\pwytter.ico” not defined
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “pwytter.py”, line 964, in ?
File “Tkinter.pyc”, line 1448, in wm_iconbitmap
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap “media\pwytter.ico” not defined

Did some reading in the above comments and found that I am not alone. Ok understand known bug. I also understand that everyone has a life so I ask with respect…….

ETA on fix??

Also to the person who fixed it via changing some code, could you please explain. Meaning where and what code lines you updated?

Thanks for all of your help. Nice app

By: John

John — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:06 +0000

Great app. The linux source was not installing completely though. The following files/dirs I had to manually copy to ‘/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.4.egg’ (note: on a Gentoo and RHEL5 system):

* pwCache.py
* pwCache.pyc
* media/
* theme/

And I had to create cfg/ in that same directory (and make it writable for my user account).

I also do seem to get a lot of 400 errors:
HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Have not found the solution for that.

By: urke

urke — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:24:07 +0000

When try to run Pwytter 0.8 on Fedora 8 Linux, I got this error:

bash-3.2$ pwytter.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pwytter.py”, line 5, in
pkg_resources.run_script(’pwytter==0.8′, ‘pwytter.py’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c6-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 448, in run_script
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c6-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 1166, in run_script
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.5.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/pwytter.py”, line 29, in
import pwSplashScreen
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.5.egg/pwSplashScreen.py”, line 19, in
from pwytter import __version__ as VERSION
File “/usr/bin/pwytter.py”, line 5, in
pkg_resources.run_script(’pwytter==0.8′, ‘pwytter.py’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c6-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 448, in run_script
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c6-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 1166, in run_script
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.5.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/pwytter.py”, line 30, in
import twclient
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pwytter-0.8-py2.5.egg/twclient/__init__.py”, line 20, in
import pwCache
ImportError: No module named pwCache

By: David Herman

David Herman — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:50:31 +0000

I was successfully able to install the client on fedora core 7 but I had some issues. I got myself loaded up with all of the dependences for images etc. and then did an easy_install on the zip archive which seemed to work fine until I ran it and it was looking for pyCache or pwCache can’t remember. Anyway I noticed that these were in the zip so i coped them to the site-packages and it worked when I would run pwytter from within the extracted directory (I also extracted the zip to ~/pwytter. However If I try and run it form anywhere else it does not run.

By: Pierre-Jean Coudert

Pierre-Jean Coudert — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:11:42 +0000

Shreela > This is fixed in SVN.

By: Shreela

Shreela — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:01:54 +0000

This worked great the first time I ran it, but it’s refused to load ever since because of some ICO problem (same as above). I’m on XP SP2, and Pwytter was installed to default directory as administrator.

In the comments above, the first mention of an ICO problem was on Dec 12 2007. Over a month later it’s mentioned that the ICO problem will be fixed in the next version. Umm, I’m not waiting around if it takes so long to fix something that prevents the program from even loading.

By: Michael Scheper

Michael Scheper — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:00:23 +0000

Thanks for the prompt response. I look forward to 0.9 and 0.10, then.

Unfortunately I don’t yet know enough about Python to help with a platform-independent sound solution. (There are sound-related, platform-independent FireFox plugins; I don’t know if those would provide any clues.)

By: Pierre-Jean Coudert

Pierre-Jean Coudert — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:53:29 +0000

Michael : the .ico bug will be solved in 0.9.
Resizable window is on the list for 0.10.
I’ve to look for a multi-os solution for the sound notifications.