dxf2gcode crashes at startup: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'validate'

[Uli Schrey]

Hello,

I tried to install dxf2gcode according to the description. Everything works, however dxf2gcode crashes at startup with error:

[uli@Libra source]$ python3 ./dxf2gcode.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/uli/dxf2gcode-sourcecode/source/./dxf2gcode.py", line 49, in <module>
    from dxf2gcode.globals.config import MyConfig
  File "/home/uli/dxf2gcode-sourcecode/source/dxf2gcode/globals/config.py", line 36, in <module>
    from validate import Validator
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'validate'

I tried to install module 'validate' with pip3 install validate which crashes with a syntax error.

I am running on Manjaro with Python 3.9.1 - maybe a compatibility issue? Thanks for any hint how to solve it

[Christian Kohlöffel]

Hi, please check the README file there you will see, that python 3.6 (please verify, I am not 100% sure)  should be used. Newer versions may not work.

 

Regards

Christian

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[Uli Schrey]

Thanks for your response. Readme says:

Prerequisites

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- Unix machines:

  - Build dependencies:

  - /usr/bin/python3 and development package (>=3.5),

so, acording to the readme it should work with Python >= 3.5 (fullfilled with Python 3.9.1; 3.5 is obsolete and 3.6 is EoL in 12/2021)

Regards, Uli

[Christian Kohlöffel]

Also in the README:

 

    Note: Please do not install python3 version 3.7.x as at the time of writing

    there is no pyqt5-tools package available for this version of the python.

 

J ….

Try to use 3.6 then.

 

ð  We need to find someone who will work on updating the code  the work with python 3.9 (3.8 reason see below).

 

 

However your failure is coming from  the validate library which is missing.

https://pypi.org/project/validator/

 

Seems to work up to version 3.8 (3.9) not supported up to now. Therefore the newest version we could update to is 3.8.

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