Finding it very difficult to move pyexiv2 code from Python 2 to Python 3

[Chris Green]

Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 18/08/2020 20:05, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
> .............
> >>
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Two solutions:
> > 1. Install exiv2-dev and py3exiv2 with pip
> >      $ sudo apt-get install libexiv2-dev
> >      $ sudo pip3 install py3exiv2
> > 
> > 2. Install my ppa
> >      $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-vandevyvre/vvv
> >      $ sudo apt-get update
> >      $ sudo apt-get install python3-exiv2
> > 
> > Don't change your old code for pyexiv2, the names of the modules are
> > unchanged, your old code should work as it.
> > 
> > Off course old strings are now unicode.
> > 
> > Vincent (AKA VinsS)
> > 
> I haven't tried #2 (I use Arch), but I did try 1) in a python 3.8 virtual 
> env. I ended up getting into a problem with boost 
> 
> >    src/exiv2wrapper.hpp:34:10: fatal error: boost/python.hpp: No such file or directory
> >        34 | #include "boost/python.hpp"
> >           |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >     compilation terminated.
> >     error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> so obviously I need to install some version of boost libs or  Boost.Python etc etc. Gave up :(
> -luddite-ly yrs-

OP here, yes, that's exactly where I got to as well! :-)

I've used Vincent's PPA before so I took that route and it worked
flawlessly, my code is now working again in 20.04 running Python 3.

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Chris Green
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