Python 2.7.16 with working Pygame and youtube-dl.

Previous errors: on shutdown of Pi an error message of use *desktop to start filer was seen and an error from Streamer when I removed a pre-configured RAM Disk – Filing system or path RAM: not present @line 883

Re-built Pi3B soft. stack to re-test.

Test Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNLR6xn9YM

No RAM disc.

Error from !Streamer (20190828) on pressing Play – Filing system or path RAM: not present at line 883

Added a RAM disc. Task Obey runs grows in size, then quits – no video

Streamer download 2019_08_16 did play video

On shutdown RAM disk contains a file Test/txt and previous error message of use *desktop filer… was displayed again.

!UnixHome isn’t a part of the installation process only !SharedLibs gets installed as part of the Python install process.

The RAMDisc is not needed. I use it for “debug information” (test/txt). Should be remove in the RunImage I send to you.
Video play should also be back again.
The “*Desktop error” I have seen but only on RPI3B not on Ti. Will take a look if I back at home.

!UnixHome you find in the packages. Is used by a lot of Unix-ports. But is more a question to Chris.
I have seen that without YouTube-dl not find a cache-Folder…

I downloaded https://www.riscosports.co.uk/vfp/python27.zip but the shared library application seems to contain only the standard GCC components. In particular there’s no sign of libpython and I get a failure, unable to find this library, when trying to run the interpreter.

Turned out I had missed something, that the necessary libraries were hiding under the “vfp” directory. Which makes sense in retrospect.

Still can’t play with Mercurial though, it complains that Bzip2 support is incomplete.

Just noticed this :-
hzzps://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/09/the_end_of_python_2_2020/
Not sure what effect the ending of all support might have.

Is an update from youtube-dl available for RISC OS?

Problems are back. A new update? ;-)

According to an XDA Dev thread (for the YouTubDownloader app), it’s not just the encryption that has changed, but a lot of the layout and structure of the pages and data. So the fix isn’t so much patching in a new recognition, but more rewriting the entire parser/scraper thing.

Mmm, yesterdays evening youtube-dl tells me “nothing to find” I should look at an update… today morning the same URLs working.

Chris, sorry to be a pain, but do you have, or could you build a version of Python 2.7.16 for prior to ARMv6?

Neither 2.7.16 or 2.7.2 run on the Iyonux, which leaves it with 2.4 which is too old to run anything non trivial, and 3.8a6 which is incredably slow (15x slower than a Mini.m, where as the equivelent C code is only 3.5x slower).

but do you have, or could you build a version of Python 2.7.16 for prior to ARMv6?

There’s a version of Python 2.7.16 available here that runs OK on RPCEmu.

That worked great, thanks Chris.

But by gawd is the Iyonix slow compared to the IMx6 or Pi 3, particularly the memory system. For small C++ CPU bound programs the Pi 3 which is clocked twice has fast has three times the performance (The XScale core was crap), but for Python programs using a lot of memory the Pi 3 is 20x quicker!