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TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

Hello forum,

I like solitaire games, so I got pysolfc installed. The recent upgrade on April brought some inconsistency but I found the answer to modify a line , which I can't remember now.
Latest upgrade to python 3.8, also brought another story. The /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pysollib/mfxutil.py has a faulty declaration to call the time.clock, which is deprecated from a long time.
Two line below I found that the declaration is not require since we use a posix OS.
So I resolved the case by change a bit

>> original
 146   uclock = time.clock
 147   usleeep = time.sleep
 148   if os.name == "posix":
 149        uclock = time.time

#>> modified to
 146   uclock = time.time
 147  usleep = time.sleep
 148  #if os.name ==  == "posix":
 149        #uclock = time.time

This pretty&dirty solution seems to put a solution and the pysolfc will start again.
I hope the developers will find the time to come to fix these flaws,  The game still  have many followers

BTW, I'm sorry I don't know how to use diff and create the patch.

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,910

Re: Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

Someone already reported it, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64554 .
Maybe you can post your fix there ?

BTW, I'm sorry I don't know how to use diff and create the patch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Patching_packages has useful info

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)

ronmon

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Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 48

Re: Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

Thanks for the quick and dirty fix. It was easy to do and works well. It is surprising that something that simple hasn't been done in the official package.

Pysol is a great little time waster that I've enjoyed for quite a while.

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

Someone already reported it, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64554 .
Maybe you can post your fix there ?

I've no subscription to that, sorry. You might pass it there, if you're subscribed.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Patching_packages has useful info

Rather another step to learn to make/fix a PKGBUILD.
I just thought I may be able. In fact there just 4 lines to diff or use sed.
Anyways I hope the researchers will stumble to this post and get it done in a dance time 

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

Mky

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Registered: 2013-11-01

Posts: 2

Re: Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

Thanks for the fix. It works great!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,539

Re: Pysolfc may fail after upgrading to python 3.8

You'd be a whole lot better off using the upstream patch.

https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/comm … d6a69836e9