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Re: [gpsd-dev] ubxtool and remote gpsd


From: Ken McGuire
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] ubxtool and remote gpsd
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 18:18:49 -0600
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Hi Gary,

Yo Ken!

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 08:14:43 -0600
Ken McGuire <address@hidden> wrote:

> > >/> Missing $PYTHONPATH!/  
> >
> > No comment?  Serious problem.  
> 
> Well, I'm probably not qualified to comment on that, first time I've
> run into $PYTHONPATH.

Because you have not installed a lot of packages from source.
Certainly true.
> I run many different linux distros:

> x86:
Sort of, they are all Ubuntu derived, thus very similar.

> Arm:

And those are all Debian derived, thus very similar.

> All of them install Python2 and Python3 by default, and none set 
> $PYTHONPATH.

Yes, $PYTHONPATH is for customer installed softare that is not
from upstream packages.  Which, if you compile our sources, is the 
present case.
Ok... so when some code it built & installed from source, you may or may not need to set $PYTHONPATH, depending on what other modules your installed code needs. Or whether your code is used by other code as a module.

> I'm not a
> programmer so for something like $PYTHONPATH to escape my knowledge
> is very likely, especially if what I'm doing in Python works without
> it being set.

$PYTHONPATH is not for programmers, it is for users that install
3rd party source.
Still learning....

Think of $PYTHONPATH just like $PATH, except $PYTHONPATH is for
Python modules and $PATH is for scripts and executables.

To see your default built-in $PYTHONPATH:

 # python
Python 2.7.16 (default, Jul  1 2019, 17:28:45) 
[GCC 9.1.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python27.zip', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0']

Any module in each of those directories can be directly imported.
Modules installed elsewhere will not be found.

python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 13 2018, 12:45:42)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/uncompyle6-2.9.10-py2.7.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']
>>>

So when I run "scons install" it will create/add to my default path, or is that an exercise left to the user?

> I developed an application that is based on cgps but drives a 240x240 
> tft display with location, sig strength and skyview. I did a version
> for the desktop too using SDL2, if you have any interest is having
> this code for an example for gpsd I'd be glad to contribute it.

Yes, but it would need a bit of work to get done.  Like removing your
hard coded paths, ensuring Python 2/3 compatibility, documentation,
etc.
Anything I write/wrote will no doubt need some work ;>)) it is written in C, just like cgps...

> Attached is a screenshot of what it looks like. (the 2 images were
> taken at different times and are not intended to show the same data)

Nice.  gpsd can use some sample graphical clients.
Not everyone wants/needs to use X or ncurses (or even SDL).

   ...ken...


RGDS
GARY


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