Re: [IBMiOSS] bpython

Yeah I'm using SSH from a macbook and running bash 4.4 on the IBMi.

bpython is just a fancier interface to the python interpreter - it's not a
different python runtime..

I got a little further in the bpython install, having installed gcc and
added it to my path in bash.
However my installation still fails, and given Jesse's comments it seems
like there would be issues running it even if I could get through the
install.

For my own edification - I'm not sure if I've done something incorrectly -
my process was:

Go into my venv and activate it.
Pre-pend '/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin' to my PATH so that gcc could be found
Pip install bpython.

which resulted eventually in the following failure:

Installing collected packages: greenlet, bpython

Running setup.py install for greenlet ... error

Complete output from command /home/RICHARC/pve1/venv/bin/python3 -u -c
"import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-b4t8x_v2/greenlet/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize,
'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n',
'\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record
/tmp/pip-record-8e6jy0k0/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
/home/RICHARC/pve1/venv/include/site/python3.6/greenlet:

running install

running build

running build_ext

building 'greenlet' extension

creating build

creating build/temp.os400-powerpc64-3.6

gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3
-Wall -O2 -g -maix64 -O2 -g -maix64 -I/home/RICHARC/pve1/venv/include
-I/QOpensys/pkgs/include/python3.6m -c greenlet.c -o
build/temp.os400-powerpc64-3.6/greenlet.o

In file included from greenlet.c:5:0:

greenlet.h:8:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

#include <Python.h>

^

compilation terminated.

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1



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regards,
Craig

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 15:08, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:56 AM Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm not married to the idea of using bpython on the IBMi, I just thought

it

might be a bit nicer for the kind of ad-hoc stuff you sometimes

investigate

using the REPL.

While there have been great strides made in the Python-on-IBM-i story,
for general exploration *of Python itself* it's still best to use
mainstream Python distributions on mainstream platforms. Learn Python
on a PC, Mac, or Linux box, and then take what you've learned and
bring it to the i.

That said, with modern tools, I find it is plenty easy enough to do
"ad-hoc" stuff by creating proper Python scripts and modules in an
editor and running them. If I have to define a function or write a
loop, I'm already reaching for my editor.

The first priority for interactive and ad-hoc exploration of the PASE
open source stuff is logging in via SSH and using bash. No green
screen. You're using SSH, right?

John Y.
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