[mythtv-users] possible to just build bindings?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:39:35 -0600, you wrote:

>Thanks again Stephen,
>
>I think I understand whats going wrong. I am using conda because of the
>instructions I was following, presumably to prevent this kind of problem in
>the first place. When using the conda environment for this project, my path
>does not include the python3 thats original to my machine. When I
>deactivate conda, I can import MythTV without error. But it wont work for
>my project because of the other dependencies that were all downloaded
>specific to the projects conda environment.
>
>I'm not sure how to proceed. I don't want to start over without using
>conda, probably can't even without really screwing things up. But I hoped
>to augment this project by utilizing some of mythtvs services api. Can I
>simply add '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages' to my path in the conda
>environment?    Note that the conda environment utilizes python 3.12, while
>its 3.10  natively on my machine.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>--George

I have no experience with conda, but the MythTV Python bindings do not
normally get updates for new versions of Python unless something
breaks and a bug report gets filed.  So it is not unlikely that the
Python 3.10 MythTV files will work in Python 3.12.  So simply adding
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages to the Python sys.path before running
MythTV Python programs will likely work in conda.  Does conda allow
you to set environment variables?  If so, then this might work:

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages