import xcb.xproto fails

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Fresh Lucid install. python-xpyb-1.2-2 from universe.

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
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>>> import xcb
>>> import xcb.xproto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xcb/xproto.py", line 11, in <module>
    class CHAR2B(xcb.Struct):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Struct'

[Jaen Saul (slowbyte)]

Same here, on latest Lucid:

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xcb/xproto.py in <module>()
      9 from array import array
     10
---> 11 class CHAR2B(xcb.Struct):
     12 def __init__(self, parent, offset, size):
     13 xcb.Struct.__init__(self, parent, offset, size)

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Struct'

[Luper Rouch (luper-rouch)]

To workaround this issue, create a symlink in the module's dir:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xcb/xcb.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/xcb/xcb.so

[Vsevolod Novikov (nnseva)]

There are also bad softlinks installed in the
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/xcb

xcb.so
xcb.so.0

linked to

../../../python2.6/dist-packages/xcb/xcb.so.0.0.0

instead of

/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/xcb/xcb.so.0.0.0