Hi Stefano,
Thanks for the reply and thank you for developing pyownet and making it
available. I have been using it for many years now.
I have always been confused over the use of sudo when installing
packages, my approach has generally been to not use sudo and see if it
all works as expected, if it doesn't then try installing with sudo.
The current system I am working on runs on a Raspberry Pi and has 2
programs, one which sets up the config for owfs alias file, log files
etc and needs to by run with sudo, but only needs to be run when I have
changed setup somehow, the other can run as a normal user and runs
permanently.
I have read through you explanation of installing in a virtual
environment and I have a few practical concerns. First I am not sure my
Linux and/or python skills are up to it. Second as there will only ever
be one user on this system I don't think is offers great benefits.
Third I will only be installing the one package, pyownet, with sudo, so
I don't think there are any serious security risks.
Thanks for your help
Mick
On 28/10/2019 21:57, Stefano Miccoli via Owfs-developers wrote:
There is little bit of confusion.
The official OWFS bindings are
- OW.py, based on SWIG wrapping the C API of libow
- ownet.py, pure python owserver client
you will find both in debian packages
- python-ow, https://packages.debian.org/buster/python-ow
- python-ownet, https://packages.debian.org/buster/python-ownet
My advice is to avoid the use of these packages with python3 (although
python3 versions exist in debian) since they are not actively developed.
I’m the author of pyownet, a different package, which does not belong
to the official OWFS code base. It is documented at
<https://pyownet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> and is available only on
pypi.org <http://pypi.org> since, to my knowledge, it is not packaged
by any major linux distribution.
pyownet is actively mantained, and is perfectly compatible with both
python3 (up from 3.3) and legacy python2 (2.7 only).
So if you “import pyownet” in your code you have to “pip install
pyownet”. The discussion in this thread is whether it is a good
practice to “sudo pip install pyownet” along the python packages
distributed by debian. In my opinion you should avoid this, and
instead use a virtual environment, as I tried to explain in my messages.
Bye
Stefano
On 28 Oct 2019, at 00:34, Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info
<mailto:m...@sulley.info>> wrote:
But that webpage says -
To install pyownet:
$ pip install pyownet
On 27/10/2019 17:09, Martin Patzak wrote:
No, pyownet is not part of ownet.
Type "man ownet"
pyownet has to be installed through pypi
maybe you find more info here:
https://github.com/miccoli/pyownet
On 27.10.19 14:54, Mick Sulley wrote:
I am confused. pyownet seems to be working with Python3 for me if
I install it as
sudo pip3 install pyownet
that is unless there are some features of it that I have not used.
Is pyownet included within python3-ownet, or have i misunderstood
that?
Also on the pypi site https://pypi.org/project/pyownet/ it says
that Python3 is fully supported and to install it use 'pip install
pyownet'
I have looked for asyncowfs and cannot find it anywhere. Can you
point me to a web page please?
Thanks
Mick
On 27/10/2019 10:26, Matthias Urlichs via Owfs-developers wrote:
Hi,
Debian: "sudo apt install python3-ownet" (or the GUI equivalent).
Having just done that …
(a) the module is named "ownet" not "pyownet"
(b) This module doesn't work with python3. Like, at all. I have
created
https://github.com/owfs/owfs/pull/44 to (barely) fix that, and I
sent a
bug report to Debian which should eventually show up on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=python3-ownet .
Personally I use asyncowfs …
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