Hello everyone,
Would someone here be able to help me with this error?
I have python.27 and .313 installed and pathed in the environment variables path c:\Python27 and c:\Python313. I cannot figure out why when I start iChat it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the Windows search bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would need more specific information.

Thanks

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it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the Windows se bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would need more specific information.

Do other scripts fail too?

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opicron wrote to Vorlonze <=-

it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the Windows se bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would need more specific information.

Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other scrripts without issue.
Just iChat.
I don't know where to look in irc.mpy to see where its failing, if there at all. I dont't have any experience
with python.
I don't see an error.log of any kind where this shows up.



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Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other scrri without issue.
Just iChat.

I think it might be failing on of the included modules.

Are the following modules installed with PIP?

socket, traceback, threading, ConfigParser

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it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the Windo bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would need mo specific information.

Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other scrri without issue.
Just iChat.
I don't know where to look in irc.mpy to see where its failing, if there a all. I dont't have any experience
with python.

I only get Cannot Initialize Python when the /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so file cannot be found.

Do you have the libpython2.7.so file available on your distribution? It doesnt matter if python runs in command line, you need this link library for Mystic.

I am sure that other .mpy script fail too because of this. Please check.

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opicron wrote to Vorlonze <=-

it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the Windo bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would need mo specific information.

Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other scrri without issue.
Just iChat.
I don't know where to look in irc.mpy to see where its failing, if there a all. I dont't have any experience
with python.

I only get Cannot Initialize Python when the /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so file cannot be found.

Do you have the libpython2.7.so file available on your distribution? It doesnt matter if python runs in command line, you need this link
library for Mystic.

I am sure that other .mpy script fail too because of this. Please
check.

I did a search of the Python27 dir and it said not found.

I ran py -2.7 -m pip install libpython2.7.so and get a bunch of errors, retrying, ERROR: Could not find a version that satifies the requirement libpython2.7.so (from versions: none), Error: No matching distribution found for libpython2.7.so and finally InsecurePlatformWarning with could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl cert.....

I don't know what that all means but I suspect that its not available anymore. But I do not know enough to say for sure.



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opicron wrote to Vorlonze <=-

Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other scrri without issue.
Just iChat.

I think it might be failing on of the included modules.

Are the following modules installed with PIP?

socket, traceback, threading, ConfigParser

Searched Python27 dir and found:

socket:
Found SocketServer.pyc, socketpyc, socketlib,socketpyd, test_scoket.py, SocketServer.py, test_socketserver.py and socket.py

traceback:
Found traceback.pyc, traceback.h, test_traceback.py and traceback.py

threading:
Found threading.pyc, test_dummy_threading.py, dummy_threading.py, test_threading.py, test_threading_local.py, threading.py, and _threading_local.py

ConfigParser:
Found ConfigParser.pyc and ConfigParser.py

missing anything?

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opicron wrote to Vorlonze <=-

it gives this "Cannot Initialize Python, press a key" error.
I can call python from any dir in a command prompt and from the bar. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you would ne specific information.

Do other scripts fail too?

No, I have not had any other issues with python. Mystic calls other without issue.
Just iChat.
I don't know where to look in irc.mpy to see where its failing, if th all. I dont't have any experience
with python.

I only get Cannot Initialize Python when the /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.so file cannot be found.

Do you have the libpython2.7.so file available on your distribution? doesnt matter if python runs in command line, you need this link library for Mystic.

I am sure that other .mpy script fail too because of this. Please check.

I did a search of the Python27 dir and it said not found.

I ran py -2.7 -m pip install libpython2.7.so and get a bunch of errors, retrying, ERROR: Could not find a version that satifies the requirement libpython2.7.so (from versions: none), Error: No matching distribution fou for libpython2.7.so and finally InsecurePlatformWarning with could not fet URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl cert.....

Yeah, I think you didnt install the dynamic Python 2.7 library. For examples of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 please check this github:

https://github.com/opicron/mysticbbs

The Dockerfiles contain the commands how I build my Python enviroment? What Linux (or Windows) are you on? If not Ubuntu, please search for how to install Python 2.7 dynamic library on your distribution.

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missing anything?

No, if these are available we only miss the dynamic Python library which Mystic uses to execute scripts.

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On 02 Apr 2025, opicron said the following...

Yeah, I think you didnt install the dynamic Python 2.7 library. For examples of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 please check this github:

https://github.com/opicron/mysticbbs

The Dockerfiles contain the commands how I build my Python enviroment? What Linux (or Windows) are you on? If not Ubuntu, please search for how to install Python 2.7 dynamic library on your distribution.

Windows. Thank you I will do that. But off to work now.
Again, thanks

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On 02 Apr 2025, opicron said the following...

missing anything?

No, if these are available we only miss the dynamic Python library which Mystic uses to execute scripts.

Well ok then, almost there!
Thank you greatly.

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Windows. Thank you I will do that. But off to work now.
Again, thanks

On windows I haven't any first hand experience, but this wiki page explains it all I think:

https://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=python_install

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On 02 Apr 2025, opicron said the following...

Windows. Thank you I will do that. But off to work now.
Again, thanks

On windows I haven't any first hand experience, but this wiki page explains it all I think:

https://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=python_install

I did exactly that from the wiki page when 1st installed python.
The wiki also reads that windows python looks for python27.dll to initialize and not libpython2.7.so.1.0, thats for linux. MacOS is another different file.

python27.dll is in the SYSWOW64 dir. Its also in the system paths. I manually edited the paths to be sure.

At a loss still.

Thanks.

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