Any comment on using ctypesgen package?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 05/03/2016 08:14, jfong at ms4.hinet.net wrote:
> Chris Angelico at 2016/3/5  UTC+8 1:50:05PM wrote:
>> Your conclusion may well be correct. However, the exact issue you're
>> looking at here might be easily enough fixed; it looks like it's
>> trying to sort things by length, so you can simply use "key=len" (and
>> maybe "reverse=True").
>
> After Chris gave this suggestion, I can't withstand the temptation of running the setup again. This time, strangely, it reports error on import. Won't the import statement easy enough to be handled by 2To3? Here is the result (where the whole "ctypesgencore" directory had been processed by 2To3 and the "parser" is a sub-directory under it):
>
> ----------
> D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master>python setup.py install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 13, in <module>
>      import ctypesgencore
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\__init__.py", line 55, in <modul
> e>
>      from . import parser
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\parser\__init__.py", line 17, in
>   <module>
>      from .datacollectingparser import DataCollectingParser
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\parser\datacollectingparser.py",
>   line 10, in <module>
>      from . import ctypesparser
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\parser\ctypesparser.py", line 15
> , in <module>
>      from .cparser import *
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\parser\cparser.py", line 21, in
> <module>
>      from . import cgrammar
>    File "D:\Patch\ctypesgen-master\ctypesgencore\parser\cgrammar.py", line 25, in
>   <module>
>      from . import ctypesparser
> ImportError: cannot import name 'ctypesparser'
> ------------
>
> Just curious, is there a recursive-import happen on handling the "parser" directory?
>
> After checking the files, I had noticed that all the import statements had been changed by 2To3. Mostly the changes are, such as, from "import cgrammar" to "from . import cgrammar", or "from cparser import *" to "from .cparset import *". I can understand the former, but can't figure out the latter:-(
>
> --Jach
>

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