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Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by twinb7 » November 29th, 2023, 11:33 pm

Hey, been a long time since I was last here.

I got a fresh install of Golly on my computer and it requested the location of my Python 3 dll for scripts to run. I pointed it to the exe in the same directory and, understandably, scripts can't run. But I can't see in the preferences where to fix this. Any help?

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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by confocaloid » November 29th, 2023, 11:50 pm

twinb7 wrote:
November 29th, 2023, 11:33 pm
Hey, been a long time since I was last here.

I got a fresh install of Golly on my computer and it requested the location of my Python 3 dll for scripts to run. I pointed it to the exe in the same directory and, understandably, scripts can't run. But I can't see in the preferences where to fix this. Any help?
I believe the place to fix this is the GollyPrefs file, where there should be a line that begins with "python3_lib=", for example:

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python3_lib=libpython3.10.so
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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by twinb7 » December 22nd, 2023, 11:11 pm

confocaloid wrote:
November 29th, 2023, 11:50 pm

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a totally straightforward fix
It's so weird, but I don't know why - every time I run Golly, it replaces the contents of GollyPrefs to make that line say python.exe again.

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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by dvgrn » December 22nd, 2023, 11:34 pm

twinb7 wrote:
December 22nd, 2023, 11:11 pm
confocaloid wrote:
November 29th, 2023, 11:50 pm

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a totally straightforward fix
It's so weird, but I don't know why - every time I run Golly, it replaces the contents of GollyPrefs to make that line say python.exe again.
Just to double-check: do you close Golly, and only then edit the GollyPrefs file, and only then run Golly again?

Golly writes out its current settings to GollyPrefs whenever it closes. You can't edit GollyPrefs while Golly is running ... or rather, you can, but it doesn't do any good.

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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by confocaloid » December 22nd, 2023, 11:39 pm

Maybe creating LifeWiki:FAQ/GollyPrefs would help

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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by johamwit » January 14th, 2024, 8:07 pm

I'm trying to use the identifier script I just dowload from viewtopic.php?p=18907, but I get the "Could not load the Python library" errorBox, highlighting "libpython3.8".

I am on ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS,
python3 starts with:
"Python 3.8.10 (default, Nov 22 2023, 10:22:35)
[GCC 9.4.0] on linux"
and GollyPrefs reads
"python3_lib=libpython3.8.so"

There are python2.7, python3, python3.8 and python3.9 folders in /usr/lib

I don't speak python. Any advice ?

EDIT: Golly 4.1
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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by get_Snacked » January 15th, 2024, 2:40 pm

slightly similar things happened here. i'm on Windows 11, and i tried to use Python 3.12 and put in the path for the dll, but it just requested me the library's location again, which means that it didn't work. then i proceeded to cancel and then try to run searchRules-matchPatt2.py, but it said that it couldn't find the command py_initialize. i then tried to use Python 3.11, but the same thing happened where i would plug the path in and it wouldn't work.

EDIT: my version of Golly is 4.2.
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Re: Pointed Golly to incorrect location for Python dll

Post by dvgrn » January 15th, 2024, 3:38 pm

Just for completeness, please mention the version of Golly you're working with, as well as the version of Python.

Otherwise, everyone tends to assume that it's Golly 4.2, and then is completely mystified as to why things aren't working ... but then sometimes it turns out that somebody is trying to get an old Golly 3.x package from some Linux distro to work with Python 3.x.

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