Import Error 'Color'

[eraserpencil]

I am trying out i3pystatus, but when configuring the status bar, I encounter the error "ImportError(cannot import name 'Color')

I am currently on Ubuntu 16.04, 4.15.0-43-generic. Python version 3.5.2, i3pystatus version 3.35.

My i3 config file:

 bar {
      mode hide
      status_command python3 /home/pbj/Documents/projects/i3/status.py
 }

My i3pystatus config file:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from i3pystatus import Status

status = Status(
#    logformat=i'%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(pathname)s %(module)s %(funcName)s %(lineno)d %(message)s:',
)

# Displays clock like this:
# Tue 30 Jul 11:59:46 PM KW31
#                          ^-- calendar week
status.register("clock",
format="%a %-d %b %X",


# Shows your CPU temperature, if you have a Intel CPU
status.register("temp",
format="{temp:.0f}°C",)
status.run()

[terminalmage]

If you add a logfile argument to your Status() line, you'll be able to get the full context of the traceback. For example:

status = Status('/home/myuser/i3pystatus.log')

Then if you start i3pystatus again, the full traceback should show up in that log.

[chestm007]

This looks like a missing python library

please try the following and restart i3pystatus

sudo pip3 install color

[terminalmage]

Yeah, the temp module does import from i3pystatus.core.color which pulls that in. I just wanted to help him/her self-troubleshoot 😄

[eraserpencil]

Whoops!

Forgot to mention i have Color v0.1 already installed, along with colorama and colour_science.

I tried the loggig way, but I dont see the logfile any where. even after i3-msg restart

[chestm007]

so, my mistake. colour is actually spelt different

sudo pip3 install colour

notice the "u"

if that still fails please post the output of pip3 freeze

also regarding logging, im unsure if it is actually a problem but my status object is initialized like

status = Status(logfile='/home/max/.i3pystatus.log')

[eraserpencil]

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Can't get the logging to work. Btw, I tried it with a comma

status = Status(logfile='/home/max/.i3pystatus.log')
and
status = Status(logfile='/home/max/.i3pystatus.log',)

[chestm007]

interesting... whats the output of:

python3 /home/pbj/Documents/projects/i3/status.py

[chestm007]

also, try changing

#!/usr/bin/env python3

in /home/pbj/Documents/projects/i3/status.py to:

#!/usr/bin/python

[lasers]

I got ImportError(cannot import name 'Color') too. Pip installing colour works okay.

also regarding logging, im unsure if it is actually a problem...

I got nothing with status = Status(logfile='$HOME/i3pystatus.log') too. We have a problem?

also, try changing ...env python3 to ... python.

This shouldn't work because python is still 2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04. [xenial/python]

[chestm007]

I got ImportError(cannot import name 'Color') too. Pip installing colour works okay.

That makes sense, its the required package

This shouldn't work because python is still 2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04

thats an excellent point... i keep forgetting ubuntu are still in the dark ages

I got nothing with status = Status(logfile='$HOME/i3pystatus.log') too. We have a problem?

That appears to be an issue - although logging to a file works for me, i use absolute paths however

[lasers]

Logging works fine. I was expecting real-time logging. Sorry. 😭

@eraserpencil See if your colour are installed via pip (Python2) or pip3. (Python3). We like pip3.

[terminalmage]

@lasers $HOME is a shell variable, Python won't expand it. You would need to do something like:

import os

status = Status(logfile=os.path.expanduser('~/i3pystatus.log'))

However, once you get logging enabled, you won't necessarily see logging output, unless the module developer is actively using logging, and the temp module doesn't actually do any logging. The log file will show exceptions, I think, but nothing else from the module.

This hasn't had any activity in almost 18 months. Are you still having trouble @eraserpencil @lasers?

[lasers]

@terminalmage I vaguely remember getting this to work with pip3. My logging statement is unrelated.