safe_decode undefined in joystick.py

mpiter

Hello,

I am not sure this must be considered as a bug. When Opensesame converts a 2.9.6 *.opensesame in a 3.0.x *.osexp script, the line

from libopensesame.py3compat import *

is not automatically added. As a consequence, the joystick plugin does not work because safe_decode is not defined. I therefore added the import line in my system copy of joystick.py and it worked well.

It might be useful for OpenSesame users to add the import line by default in any function generating a new scripts and in joystick.py.

Best regards,

pit

sebastiaan

Hi Michel,

You're right, this import statement is missing in the joystick plugin. @joshua and I actually noticed this a few days ago as well. So that's definitely a bug.

It might be useful for OpenSesame users to add the import line by default in any function generating a new scripts and in joystick.py.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but it's not a good idea to import py3compat in inline_script items. Doing so will change Python 2 behavior so that it more closely resembles Python 3--which is generally not what users expect. The py3compat module is purely for internal use within the OpenSesame code to facilitate interoperability between Python 2 and 3.

Cheers!
Sebastiaan

mpiter

I see. You are obviously right. Since I do not program in Python I had not realized what the module does. The import should only be added to joystick.py.

Just a quick question that does not deserve a real thread. I use your ppa:smathot/cogscinl PPA on Linux Mint 17.2. It works well but only gives access to Opensesame 3.0.2 and not 3.0.4. Is it normal?

You and your colleagues do a great job :-)

mpiter

Never mind, the new version had not been propagated yet. It has just arrived and I installed it. It works well!