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vbarbarosh
vbarbarosh

Reputation: 3702

ImportError: cannot import name redirect_stderr

I think this somehow related to installed Python, but I have no clue how to fix it.

This is what I have:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.12

$ pyftsubset
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pyftsubset", line 7, in <module>
    from fontTools.subset import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fontTools/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from fontTools.misc.py23 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fontTools/misc/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from fontTools.misc.py23 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fontTools/misc/py23.py", line 6, in <module>
    from contextlib import redirect_stderr, redirect_stdout
ImportError: cannot import name redirect_stderr

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1291

Answers (2)

vbarbarosh
vbarbarosh

Reputation: 3702

The problem was in incorrect version of Python:

https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/

FontTools 4.x requires Python 3.6 or later. FontTools 3.x requires Python 2.7 or later.

I tried to use latest fonttools with Python 2. Installing Python 3 with reinstallation of fonttools solved the issue:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y python3 python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
hash -r
pip install fonttools

Upvotes: 0

MyNameIsCaleb
MyNameIsCaleb

Reputation: 4489

You need to uninstall fontTools and then install the py27 branch of it. The version you are using isn't backwards compatible to Python 2.7

Upvotes: 1

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