easyGUI, anyone? Or apricots?

[feverish]

According to the web, the package to download and install easyGUI is python-easygui. So, sudo apt-get install python-easygui should do the trick? It seemed so, according to Terminal. Then, in a py script, I should be able to import python-easygui? Terminal says NO! No such thing. import easygui? Not on your Nelly! import python-easygui * ? Syntax error. Google is not my friend in this, nor are the forum searches. Is this something to do with a need for another dtoverlay, I ask myself? If so, quite what? ISTR the arabs have a saying, 'bukhra, inshallah, fi'l mishmish' . . . tomorrow, if god wishes, there will be apricots, so apricot-hopes are high right now, in this heathen mind.

[kusti8]

According to the web, you import it as easygui. Try installing it with pip and try again as import easygui

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sudo pip install easygui

Should do it.

[mikerr]

Install easygui:

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sudo apt-get install python-easygui

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import easygui
easygui.msgbox("hello world")

Note easygui needs x windows running...

[feverish]

Install easygui:

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sudo apt-get install python-easygui

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import easygui
easygui.msgbox("hello world")

Note easygui needs x windows running...

Thanks. Unfortunately that's how I did install it, with the failure results I mentioned, plus trying later also to include in /boot/config.txt, when it didn't work:- dtoverlay=python-easygui
If not python-easygui, does anyone have a recent install of a close simple equivalent? I see there is a very long list of (many now-also-unsupported) equivalents.

[kusti8]

I would try installing it via pip like I showed and see if that helps.

[feverish]

According to the web, you import it as easygui. Try installing it with pip and try again as import easygui

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sudo pip install easygui

Should do it.

Thanks. I haven't got pip installed, so I tried sudo apt-get install pip and Terminal said there was no such packet, so now searching for a HowTo. If it works out, I'll report back later

[kusti8]

Pip's package name is python-pip

[feverish]

Pip's package name is python-pip

I think I may have become caught up in the 'python 2 or python3' wars? Pip seems to install under python 2.7 and I have python 3.4 installed here. So even after installing pip, apparently I can't use it, as Terminal still reports no such file etc. Anyway, thanks for trying, I'll try to move on to a different GUI-thing.

[Jednorozec]

If you're running python3 then you need to install python3-easygui. I installed both versions and it works for both python2 and python3. If you want to use pip for something then you need to install python3-pip.

[feverish]

If you're running python3 then you need to install python3-easygui. I installed both versions and it works for both python2 and python3. If you want to use pip for something then you need to install python3-pip.

Ah!! Excellent. A small glimmer of light breaks through, thanks to that. I'm off to give them both a try.

[feverish]

If you're running python3 then you need to install python3-easygui. I installed both versions and it works for both python2 and python3. If you want to use pip for something then you need to install python3-pip.

That's where I went wrong, many thanks for the cures. Both pip and easygui now work here.

[tonywaite]

Just to sum up, choose one of the following, depending on your chosen flavour of Python:
sudo pip install easygui
sudo pip-3.2 install easygui