Can't open scripting console of KiCad 5.1.5 under Ubuntu

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 2:07am

This is my kicad and system version

When I click the scripting console button, I get an error

**error:unable to create the Python Console**

Case of my python and module

XXX@X-U:~$ python -V
Python 2.7.17

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>>> help("modules");

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...

DEBUG:pip.utils:lzma module is not available
DEBUG:pip.vcs:Registered VCS backend: git
DEBUG:pip.vcs:Registered VCS backend: hg
DEBUG:pip.vcs:Registered VCS backend: svn
DEBUG:pip.vcs:Registered VCS backend: bzr
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CDROM               axolotl_curve25519  httplib             sgmllib
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anydbm              google              resource            xdrlib
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How can i deal with this problem or give me some relevant information
Thank you

qu1ck · January 15, 2020, 2:33am

How did you install kicad? This seems like nightly snapshot of 5.1 branch.
You need python3, not python.

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 2:58am

5.1.5
Installed in a week

qu1ck · January 15, 2020, 3:27am

Run this in terminal, it should print a 0:

python3 << EOF
import pcbnew
print(pcbnew.F_Cu)
EOF

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 3:40am

in Terminal this print this

XXXXX@XX-U:~$ python3
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov  7 2019, 10:50:52) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pcbnew
>>> print(pcbnew.F_Cu)
0
>>>

Can I forcibly switch to python3 by changing the configuration file?

qu1ck · January 15, 2020, 3:47am

That means issue is not with python or with lack of pcbnew bindings. Must be something in kicad package itself. I don’t use ubuntu so can’t help much further but try this as well.
Launch pcbnew from terminal and then try to open console. Any error messages in terminal can hint at the root cause.

Switch what to python3? KiCad uses python3 already (at least on linux).

SembazuruCDE · January 15, 2020, 4:03am

To assist the troubleshooting, on KiCad’s about window there is a button titled “Copy Version Info”. Please use that button and clipboard paste here. This will also include the build info.

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 4:39am

Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.5-52549c5~84~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.65.3 OpenSSL/1.1.1c zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.9.0/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.39.2 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.0.0-23-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 5:30am

I try to launch kicad through Terminal and run the scripting console
Gives me such an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/kicad/scripting/kicad_pyshell/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    import wx
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wx/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    __version__ = wx.__version__.VERSION_STRING
AttributeError: module 'wx' has no attribute '__version__'

kicad need wx version is 3.0.4

so,I test run python on terminal ,The version looks right

XXXXX@X-U:~$ python
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov  7 2019, 10:50:52) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import wx
>>> print(wx.version())
4.0.6 gtk3 (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.0.4

qu1ck · January 15, 2020, 6:24am

It’s strange that you can import wx manually from python3 cli but kicad can’t do it.
Probably site-packages is messed up or some python related environment variable.

Can you do apt show kicad and apt show python3-wxgtk4.0

zyqcome · January 15, 2020, 6:51am

XXXXX@X-U:~$ apt show kicad
Package: kicad
Version: 5.1.5-201911190827+52549c5~84~ubuntu18.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: electronics
Maintainer: Adam Wolf <adamwolf@feelslikeburning.com>
Installed-Size: 99.1 MB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libgl1, libglew2.0 (>= 1.12.0), libglu1-mesa | libglu1, liboce-foundation11, liboce-modeling11, liboce-ocaf-lite11, liboce-ocaf11, libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.15.14), libpython3.6 (>= 3.6.5), libstdc++6 (>= 7), libwxbase3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.4+dfsg), libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 (>= 3.0.4+dfsg), python3-wxgtk4.0, libngspice-kicad | libngspice0, xsltproc
Recommends: kicad-libraries, kicad-doc-en, kicad-demos
Suggests: extra-xdg-menus, kicad-locale-ko | kicad-locale-ru | kicad-locale-pl | kicad-locale-pt | kicad-locale-ja | kicad-locale-id | kicad-locale-ca | kicad-locale-it | kicad-locale-el | kicad-locale-zh | kicad-locale-de | kicad-locale-sl | kicad-locale-cs | kicad-locale-bg | kicad-locale-sv | kicad-locale-lt | kicad-locale-fi | kicad-locale-fr | kicad-locale-hu | kicad-locale-nl | kicad-locale-es | kicad-locale-sk
Conflicts: kicad-common
Replaces: kicad-common
Download-Size: 22.7 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/kicad-5.1/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
Description: Electronic schematic and PCB design software
 Kicad is a suite of programs for the creation of printed circuit boards.
 It includes a schematic editor, a PCB layout tool, support tools and a
 3D viewer to display a finished & fully populated PCB.
 .
 Kicad is made up of 5 main components:
 .
 * kicad - project manager
 * eeschema - schematic editor
 * pcbnew - PCB editor
 * gerbview - GERBER viewer
 * cvpcb - footprint selector for components
 .
 Libraries:
 * Both eeschema and pcbnew have library managers and editors for their
 components and footprints
 * You can easily create, edit, delete and exchange library items
 * Documentation files can be associated with components, footprints and key
 words, allowing a fast search by function
 * Very large libraries are available for schematic components and footprints
 * Most components have corresponding 3D models

N: There are 2 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

XXXXX@X-U:~$ apt show python3-wxgtk4.0
Package: python3-wxgtk4.0
Version: 4.0.6+dfsg-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Source: wxpython4.0
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: wxWidgets Maintainers <team+wx@tracker.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 41.0 MB
Provides: python3.7-wxgtk4.0
Depends: python3-pil, python3-six, python3 (<< 3.8), python3 (>= 3.7~), python3-numpy, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libwxbase3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.4+dfsg), libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 (>= 3.0.4+dfsg), sip-py3api-12.6
Suggests: wx3.0-doc
Homepage: https://www.wxpython.org/
Download-Size: 6,603 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 Packages
Description: Python 3 interface to the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
 wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) is a class library for C++ providing
 GUI components and other facilities on several popular platforms (and some
 unpopular ones as well).
 .
 This package provides a Python 3 interface to the wxGTK library and the
 wxPython runtime support libraries.  This is the Phoenix reimplementation of
 wxPython.

N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it

note: Sorry, add

qu1ck · January 15, 2020, 7:29am

Well why would you install KiCad from bionic (18.04) if you have eoan (19.10).
Try changing your ppa repo to point to eoan and reinstall kicad.

eelik · January 15, 2020, 8:43am

zyqcome · January 17, 2020, 2:37am

Thanks everyone for your help

I fixed it

This has nothing to do with the system version, presumably there is a problem with the installation or other operations have damaged the python environment

I reinstalled the ubuntu system and installed kicad in the same way, this time without any problems,

But this is the dumbest and most tiring method.

system · April 16, 2020, 2:51am

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