ImportError: No module named MAMEToolkit.sf_environment

[loretoparisi]

Hello, just installed on macOS:

$ sudo -H pip install MAMEToolkit
Password:
Collecting MAMEToolkit
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/db/ad/dfa33e9ec2e96001f73b99b528af06fe32f39722a27123393f034bc4d038/MAMEToolkit-1.0.1.tar.gz (59.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 59.9MB 60kB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: MAMEToolkit
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for MAMEToolkit ... done
  Stored in directory: /var/root/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/39/f7/7e/d0b7f5568ba6535eb224fa2238f6f061d814b89909e70b6656
Successfully built MAMEToolkit
Installing collected packages: MAMEToolkit
Successfully installed MAMEToolkit-1.0.1
ip-192-168-1-103:~ loretoparisi$ python
Python 2.7.15 (default, May 10 2018, 18:56:10) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.1)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import random
>>> from MAMEToolkit.sf_environment import Environment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named MAMEToolkit.sf_environment

And therefore tried virtualenv:

$ virtualenv venv
New python executable in /Users/loretoparisi/Documents/Projects/AI/games/venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
ip-192-168-1-103:games loretoparisi$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) ip-192-168-1-103:games loretoparisi$ pip install MAMEToolkit
Collecting MAMEToolkit
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/db/ad/dfa33e9ec2e96001f73b99b528af06fe32f39722a27123393f034bc4d038/MAMEToolkit-1.0.1.tar.gz (59.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 59.9MB 133kB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: MAMEToolkit
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for MAMEToolkit ... done
  Stored in directory: /Users/loretoparisi/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/39/f7/7e/d0b7f5568ba6535eb224fa2238f6f061d814b89909e70b6656
Successfully built MAMEToolkit
Installing collected packages: MAMEToolkit
Successfully installed MAMEToolkit-1.0.1
(venv) ip-192-168-1-103:games loretoparisi$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Aug 17 2018, 17:41:52) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.0.42)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from MAMEToolkit.sf_environment import Environment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/loretoparisi/Documents/Projects/AI/games/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from MAMEToolkit import emulator
  File "/Users/loretoparisi/Documents/Projects/AI/games/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/emulator/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from MAMEToolkit.emulator.Emulator import Emulator, list_actions, see_games, run_cheat_debugger
  File "/Users/loretoparisi/Documents/Projects/AI/games/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/emulator/Emulator.py", line 59
    pipes_path = f"{os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))}/mame/pipes"
                                                                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[M-J-Murray]

Unfortunately the library can only be installed on Linux systems. The frame data is passed from the emulator to the library using linux fifo pipes.

[loretoparisi]

@M-J-Murray ah so! Wonder if it would works with a docker-ized version of MAME like DAME...

[kyuhyoung]

>>> import MAMEToolkit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/kevin/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from MAMEToolkit import emulator
  File "/home/kevin/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/emulator/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from MAMEToolkit.emulator.Emulator import Emulator, list_actions, see_games, run_cheat_debugger
  File "/home/kevin/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/MAMEToolkit/emulator/Emulator.py", line 59
    pipes_path = f"{os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))}/mame/pipes"
                                                                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Same error.
Ubuntu 16.04.

[M-J-Murray]

Which version of Python are you running? I should probably state this only works on python 3.6+

[kyuhyoung]

Which version of Python are you running? I should probably state this only works on python 3.6+

Mine was 3.5.
With python 3.6, the above error does not occur anymore. Thanks.

[loretoparisi]

@M-J-Murray so to recap, it would work in docker with python 3.6. Where you aware of the dockerized MAME version (DAME)? Thanks

[M-J-Murray]

I was not aware of the dockerized version of mame. The problem is not caused by mame. The library itself uses Linux fifo pipes. I will have to find another mechanism similar to fifo pipes that works on every OS.