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python-visual package

boost library broken, importing python-visual fails

Bug #476330 reported by danny.caballero on 2009-11-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #457688: [SRU, 9.10] libboost-python1.38 issues with __doc__ property in Python >= 2.6.3. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	python-visual (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: python2.6

> python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 29 2009, 15:38:25)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from visual import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  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
>>exit()
>

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 6 05:18:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python2.6-minimal 2.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: python2.6
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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danny.caballero (danny-caballero) wrote on 2009-11-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (577 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (27.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (771 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (18.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Adam Collard (adam-collard) wrote on 2010-02-21:

Not a bug in Python itself. The problem lies with python-visual

affects:

python2.6 (Ubuntu) → python-visual (Ubuntu)

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Scott Howard (showard314) wrote on 2010-02-21:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 457688, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.