Not working in Python 3.12 due to pyinotify

[elwint]

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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'asyncore'
Related to seb-m/pyinotify#204

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[josephj11]

Welcome to the AutoKey community, @elwint !

Good to know. Hopefully, you can wrap autokey-qt or autokey-gtk in a script that invokes it with Python 3.11 as a workaround or, maybe, symlink python to python3.11 until this can be addressed.

We are very low on developer resources, so it may be a while before this can be addressed.

[feluxe]

I have the same issue. autokey doesn't work with python 3.12 on my machine.

[josephj11]

I just checked and AFAIK, I am running 3.12 on Kubuntu 22.04 but I don't see any Python components that look like they're greater than 3.10. python3 -V says 3.12 and everything works fine - installed from the debs on GitHub.

locate -b asyncore
/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncore.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/__pycache__/asyncore.cpython-310.pyc

[josephj11]

@elwint Have you tried anything else or made any progress?

@feluxe Can you provide details of exactly what it does do and the other information that the report form above asks the OP for?

[VelorumS]

Try to install the pyasyncore Python package. It brings back asyncore that's deprecated.

https://github.com/simonrob/pyasyncore

It seems that Python has deprecated asyncore in version 3.6 and removed it in version 3.12 https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/asyncore.html

asyncio should be used instead.

pyinotify has to fix the code: seb-m/pyinotify#204

[elwint]

@josephj11 My quick workaround has been overwriting pyinotify.py in my pipx venv with troycurtisjr fixed version in seb-m/pyinotify#205

[josephj11]

Thanks to both of you @VelorumS and @elwint for the feedback.

If you know any Python developers looking for a good project to work on, please send them our way! We currently have none and can't fix even seemingly simple problems such as this. I would be very sad to see this project die.