[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: Current Master & python version (solved)

[John]

On 01/01/2020 15:25, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 1/1/20 2:22 AM, John wrote:
>> Noting the content of https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Python3_Conversion
>>
>> I can install both the Python 2 & 3 bindings when building from source.
>>
>> This works fine on my combined front & back end.
>>
>> However for convenience I have a Standalone Frontend which I update 
>> from the Ubuntu Master PPA.
>>
>> This installs only the Python 3 bindings causing the metadata / tvdb 
>> functionality to not work on that machine.
>>
>> Ubuntu 18.04 & 19.10 seem to default to Python 2.
>>
>> A web search advises against changing the default in Ubuntu.
>>
>> How do I persuade the MythTV Python utilities to use the version 3 
>> bindings.
>>
>> Noting that mythweb can be persuaded using sudo a2enmod php7.3.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>
> For now, you can manually change the shebang in 
> .../share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py
> to python3 from just python. That's what an upcoming commit will do at 
> install time.
>
Thanks