[op25-dev] OP25, python, and the upcoming *buntu 20.04 releases - heads up and FYI....

[op25 at zellners.com]

Quoting op25 at zellners.com:
> For OP25-boatbod is this Python 3.7 compatible??????

After doing an apt-get install for python3-waitress

Then rerun rx.py

It fails on the import for httplib

And from what I see from 2.7 to 3.x httplib is now http.client so all  
the calls for that are now changed....

So I am going to guess that any further attempts to add in the python3  
packages needed will still fail to get OP25-boatbod to run till this  
any other ABI changes are made...

trace for FYI:
r/apps$ ./rx.py --args 'rtl' -N 'LNA:47' -S 2400000 -f 857.2625e6 -o  
25000 -q -2
   File "./rx.py", line 118
     print "osmosdr source_c creation failure"
           ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean  
print("osmosdr source_c creation failure")?
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/compat.py", line 119,  
in <module>
     import httplib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'httplib'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line  
63, in apport_excepthook
     from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5,  
in <module>
     from apport.report import Report
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 21, in <module>
     from urllib.request import urlopen
   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 88, in <module>
     import http.client
   File "/home/lauren/op25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps/http.py", line  
31, in <module>
     from waitress.server import create_server
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/__init__.py", line 1,  
in <module>
     from waitress.server import create_server
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/server.py", line 20,  
in <module>
     from waitress import trigger
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/trigger.py", line 20,  
in <module>
     from . import wasyncore
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/wasyncore.py", line  
54, in <module>
     from . import compat
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/waitress/compat.py", line 121,  
in <module>
     from http import client as httplib
ImportError: cannot import name 'client' from partially initialized  
module 'http' (most likely due to a circular import)  
(/home/lauren/op25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps/http.py)

Original exception was:
   File "./rx.py", line 118
     print "osmosdr source_c creation failure"
           ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean  
print("osmosdr source_c creation failure")?