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AlexP11223

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Registered: 2021-12-28

Posts: 4

No python2 modules in libxml2?

Is libxml2 no longer supposed to provide the python2 modules?

I get only this:

$ pacman -Ql libxml2 | grep 'lib/python'
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/drv_libxml2.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/drv_libxml2.cpython-310.pyc
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/libxml2.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/libxml2.cpython-310.pyc
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libxml2.py
libxml2 /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libxml2mod.so

$ pacman -Q libxml2
libxml2 2.9.12-6

python2
Python 2.7.18 (default, Oct 10 2021, 22:29:32) 
[GCC 11.1.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import libxml2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named libxml2

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: No python2 modules in libxml2?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-lxml

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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AlexP11223

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Registered: 2021-12-28

Posts: 4

Re: No python2 modules in libxml2?

It seems to be a different Python library. What if I need to build an old project that uses "import libxml2"?

a821

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Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 381

Re: No python2 modules in libxml2?

Indeed, python2 support was removed. You could rebuild the package from the previous version.