ImportError: No module named scrap on Windows 7 x64 (105)

[GalacticEmperor1]

Issue №105 opened by illume at 2012-01-19 09:24:47

Originally reported by: Mahmoud Hossam (Bitbucket: mahmoudhossam, GitHub: mahmoudhossam)

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I have installed Python 3.2 (32-bit) and pygame 1.9.2 on windows 7 using the installers on the website, but I get an ImportError when trying to access pygame's help inside the interpreter

# !python

Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep  4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import pygame
>>> pygame.init()
(6, 0)
>>> help(pygame)

Warning (from warnings module):
  File "C:\Python32\lib\inspect.py", line 103
    return (hasattr(object, "__get__")
RuntimeWarning: use scrap: No module named scrap
(ImportError: No module named scrap)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell# 2>", line 1, in <module>
    help(pygame)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site.py", line 457, in __call__
    return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1754, in __call__
    self.help(request)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1804, in help
    else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:', output=self._output)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1540, in doc
    pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload))
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1533, in render_doc
    return title % desc + '\n\n' + renderer.document(object, name)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 338, in document
    if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\pydoc.py", line 1064, in docmodule
    for key, value in inspect.getmembers(object, inspect.isroutine):
  File "C:\Python32\lib\inspect.py", line 263, in getmembers
    if not predicate or predicate(value):
  File "C:\Python32\lib\inspect.py", line 248, in isroutine
    or ismethoddescriptor(object))
  File "C:\Python32\lib\inspect.py", line 103, in ismethoddescriptor
    return (hasattr(object, "__get__")
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 70, in __getattr__
    raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule)
NotImplementedError: scrap module not available
(ImportError: No module named scrap)

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issue/105

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Comments

# # illume commented at 2012-02-29 19:32:14

Original comment by Anonymous:

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+1, I also have this error and was wondering if it was a bug in the distribution or my installation

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# # illume commented at 2012-03-01 04:12:21

Original comment by cgohlke (Bitbucket: cgohlke, GitHub: cgohlke):

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The scrap extension is not yet ported to Python 3 for Windows, and is excluded in setup.py. See https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/src/0921cc0fbca7/setup.py# cl-159. The attached patch should fix this.

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# # illume commented at 2012-03-20 03:57:02

Original comment by Lenard Lindstrom (Bitbucket: llindstrom, GitHub: llindstrom):

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I have enabled scrap builds for Python 3.x on Windows in changeset d811a6f742d8. It passes the unit tests. Warning, though, scrap is buggy with binary data.

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# # illume commented at 2012-03-21 20:44:21

Original comment by Lenard Lindstrom (Bitbucket: llindstrom, GitHub: llindstrom):

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Fix bytes decoding problem in scrap_clipboard.py example (refs # 105)

On Windows, the '\ufffd' unicode replacement character is not recognized.
So, for the 'replace' decoding errors option, a UnicodeEncodingError
exception is raised for non-ascii bytes. The 'ignore' errors option,
though less informative, raises no exceptions.

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# # illume commented at 2012-03-21 20:48:06

Original comment by Lenard Lindstrom (Bitbucket: llindstrom, GitHub: llindstrom):

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My concern regarding binary data in the clipboard was unfounded. It was a problem with pygame.examples.scrap_clipboard, not pygame.scrap. So please give scrap another try on Windows. If there are no more concerns I will close this issue.

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# # illume commented at 2012-04-10 10:39:02

Original comment by Anonymous:

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I have this problem too ('scrap not available'). Does anybody know help???????

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# # MyreMylar commented at 2019-11-12 13:32:35

This crash doesn't happen in python 3 builds on windows anymore.

Tested original reproduction on 3.4 (pygame 1.9.6) & 3.7 (pygame 2.0-dev6) on windows.

Though even Python 3.4 is EOL now.

Recommend close.