Re: Trying out Kivy

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/13/2015 11:33 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I tried out the ‘standard’ Kivy application:
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from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
class TestApp(App):
     def build(self):
         return Button(text='Hello World')

TestApp().run()
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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.



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Terry Jan Reedy


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