[mythtv-users] Current Master & python version

[Bill Meek]

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.

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Bill