MHAPI plugin not loading

[mhuser]

Hi
I have got a problem with the MH API Plugin: namespace conflict ?

I installed the windows version "makehuman-1.1.1-win32" downloaded from http://www.makehumancommunity.org/conte ... loads.html, MH starts without any problems and under "Utilities" no errors or warnings are displayed.

After adding the 1_mhapi folder (downloaded here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/plugins.html as zip file) with the core py files to the plugins folder, during start process a warning is shown, that 1_mhapi could not be loaded. Under Utilities the warning is like:
Could not load 1_mhapi
Traceback...
...
File plugins/1_mhapi/namespace.py" line 6 in <module>
from six import with metaclass
import error no module named six


Under "settings", "plugins" no 1_mhapi is shown.

i don't get this error, when i use a 1_mhapi folder from another nighty build, then the plugin is loaded correctly.

What can be the reason ?

[joepal]

The reason is we tried to fix an incompatibility with python 3.6. Seems we instead broke the compatibility with python 2.7, or at least with the release version.

I have uploaded a modified version of MHAPI now. Can you check if this solves the problem?

[mhuser]

joepal,
still does not load / work for me.

The warning says now:
...
File api.py line 15 in _init_ from .internals import Internals

File _internals.py line 4 .. from JsonCall import JsonCall

File CsonCall.py line 8 from six import string_types

import error: no module six

[joepal]

Ok, this will be a slightly larger thing to fix. I'm on it, but it will take a while.

[joepal]

Now there's another version uploaded, which hopefully will solve the problem (I have tested it with the release version).

If you plan on using the socket plugin, you will need to re-download that too.

[mhuser]

works,
thank you and greetings

[Aranuvir]

@Joe: If we should ever do another Python2 based release, we should make sure six is included.

[joepal]

@Joe: If we should ever do another Python2 based release, we should make sure six is included.

Yup. It's unfortunate that it isn't there in the current version. It'll make things cumbersome until such a point that we have a new stable release through the door.

Once there is a stable py3 release, we should probably stop trying to maintain backwards compatibility with py2. It's too error prone.