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Re: Trying out Kivy

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Trying out Kivy
Date 2015-11-13 12:23 -0500
Message-ID <mailman.295.1447435442.16136.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
References <871tbt3lml.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>

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On 11/13/2015 11:33 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I tried out the ‘standard’ Kivy application:
> ============================================================
> from kivy.app import App
> from kivy.uix.button import Button
>
> class TestApp(App):
>      def build(self):
>          return Button(text='Hello World')
>
> TestApp().run()
> ============================================================
>
> When using python2 I see some exceptions and OSErrors, but it runs.
>
> When using python3 I get:
>      [CRITICAL          ] [Text        ] Unable to find any valuable Text provider at all!
>      pygame - ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
>          fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pygame.py", line 12, in <module>
>          import pygame
>
>      pil - ImportError: No module named 'PIL'
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
>          fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
>        File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pil.py", line 8, in <module>
>          from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
>
>      [CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Text provider, abort.
>
> I tried to install pygame and PIL with pip3, but that did not find

Use pillow rather than PIL.  API is same.  Don't know about rest of your 
question.

> anything. Is there another way to install those dependencies?
>
> But more importantly: can I develop with python3 for the Android?
> Because the primary reason to use Kivy is to develop applications for Android.
>


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Trying out Kivy Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-11-13 17:33 +0100
  Re: Trying out Kivy Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 10:21 -0700
    Re: Trying out Kivy Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-11-13 19:30 +0100
      Re: Trying out Kivy Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 12:53 -0700
        Re: Trying out Kivy Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-11-13 21:10 +0100
          Re: Trying out Kivy bayang <wabayang@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 22:11 +0100
          Re: Trying out Kivy Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-11-14 12:51 +0100
            Re: Trying out Kivy bayang <wabayang@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 13:42 +0100
            Re: Trying out Kivy Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 08:43 -0700
  Re: Trying out Kivy Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-13 12:23 -0500
  Re: Trying out Kivy bayang <wabayang@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 18:50 +0100

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