Last ttkthemes version supporting Python 2.7

Not sure if this is a silly question but in Python 2.7.12 when I use:

    style = ttk.Style()
    print('style.theme_names():', style.theme_names())

I get:

style.theme_names(): ('clam', 'alt', 'default', 'classic')

I'm interested in 'radiance' and 'ubuntu' themes but Python 2.7 support was dropped January 2021 or so.

How exactly would I get a version from December 2020 and manually copy it to my Linux distribution?

I can use sudo apt install python3-ttkthemes but that is the wrong version.

BTW TCL version is 8.6 and I'm not sure about TkImg.

ttk.Style and ttkthemes.ThemedStyle are different. To actually get the themes loaded, you need to instantiate ThemedStyle, or use ttkthemes.ThemedTk instead of tkinter.Tk.

Many libraries don't support Python 2, and I don't think ttkthemes will be an exception. You have a couple options:

Upgrade to Python 3
Make your own fork of ttkthemes and revert everything that was changed when Python 2 support was dropped. Most of the work is done in Tcl files, so this shouldn't be too difficult.

@Akuli How do you fork and revert? Also my Python 2.7 code has imports for things like from __future__ import print_function which kind of makes it really Python 3.x as always use print(...) as a function. I aslo use from __future__ import with_statement. So my Python 2.7 is really Python 3.x soon to be Python 4.x. Will this infect / effect fork & revert?

from __future__ import blah in your code does not affect libraries you import.

Python 3 support was dropped in #66. You need to revert everything that was changed in that pull request. If you are familiar with basics of Git and GitHub, forking and reverting should both be very googlable.

Now that I look at the Git history in more detail, I realized that ttkthemes 2.4.0 supports Python 2, and it has ubuntu and radiance themes, so you just need to install that specific version (with e.g. pip):

(e) akuli@akuli-desktop:~$ pip install ttkthemes==2.4.0
...
Successfully installed pillow-8.3.2 ttkthemes-2.4.0

(e) akuli@akuli-desktop:~$ python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jan 22 2021, 20:04:44) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ttkthemes
>>> ttkthemes.ThemedStyle().theme_names()
['scidgrey', 'scidgreen', 'aquativo', 'scidpink', 'clam', 'scidmint', 'blue', 'elegance', 'classic', 'arc', 'black', 'winxpblue', 'itft1', 'scidsand', 'ubuntu', 'smog', 'radiance', 'equilux', 'default', 'scidpurple', 'keramik', 'clearlooks', 'kroc', 'alt', 'plastik', 'scidblue']
>>>

@Akuli Using pip gave 5,000 lines of output which was truncated at top. Last line read:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-1XWv1k/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-1XWv1k/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-ZQ54ro/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/rick/.local/include/python2.7/ttkthemes Check the logs for full command output.

Sigh

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install wheel
pip install ttkthemes==2.4.0

Still errors?

@Akuli Yes still have errors after upgrading pip from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4. To find the errors I had to resort to a little 2> file redirection and grep:

$ grep ERROR error.log -a2
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-JYSQIP
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/
--
  error: can't copy 'ttkthemes/themes/clearlooks': doesn't exist or not a regular file
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for ttkthemes
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-KNPTZU/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/rick/.local/include/python2.7/ttkthemes
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/
--
    error: can't copy 'ttkthemes/themes/clearlooks': doesn't exist or not a regular file
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-MCjLVi/ttkthemes/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-KNPTZU/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/rick/.local/include/python2.7/ttkthemes Check the logs for full command output.

Thanks for introducing me to pip BTW. Previously I only used sudo apt install python-xxx

I can't reproduce your problem.

~ $ sudo apt install python-pip
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~ $ python2 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored
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Installing collected packages: pip
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~ $ python2 -m pip install ttkthemes==2.4.0
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting ttkthemes==2.4.0
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Building wheels for collected packages: ttkthemes
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Installing collected packages: pillow, ttkthemes
Successfully installed pillow-6.2.2 ttkthemes-2.4.0
~ $

Which distro are you using?

@WinEunuuchs2Unix pip==2.3.4 is extremely old. I can't find the tag on the pip GitHub repository, but given how 6.0 was in 2014, I'd say 2.3.4 is from before that. From the top of my head pip dropped support for Python 2 around version 20.x.x or so, so you should be able to install a much newer version of pip.

May I ask why you still use Python 2.7? It is deprecated after all, and I won't be making a new ttkthemes package that is compatible with Python 2. The biggest reason for that is having to think around support for Tk 8.5, which complicates the theme loading mechanisms. You are free to set that up yourself: It's definitely possible if you have some time to spend on it. First rewrite the tkinter imports to support Python 2, and work your way through the code from there. If you have Tk 8.6, it should not be too hard.

What is probably going wrong now is that you have a really old version of setuptools as well. Try this:

python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
python -m pip install ttkthemes==2.4.0

pip==2.3.4 is extremely old

I assumed it was a typo. From my pip output, you can see that you get pip==20.3.4 by updating it on Python 2.

@Akuli is correct it was a typo. I will try above suggestions after work but for the time being:

$ pip --version

results in:

pip 20.3.4 from /home/rick/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

As far as 2.7 support goes, my program is written to support python 2.7 or 3.x. Later I will extend to support Mac and Windows. Even some day Android Auto I hope. Because corporations can invest millions in software and lock it in for decades I thought learning both python 2.7 and 3.x a good move.

@Akuli SUCCESS! I googled error message which led to here: https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx/issues/594

That link told me to run this:

$ pip install -U setuptools

DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
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ERROR: pip's legacy dependency resolver does not consider dependency conflicts when selecting packages. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
launchpadlib 1.10.3 requires testresources, which is not installed.
Successfully installed setuptools-44.1.1

Now installation is successful:

$ python2 -m pip install ttkthemes==2.4.0  2> error.log

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting ttkthemes==2.4.0
  Using cached ttkthemes-2.4.0.tar.gz (757 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from ttkthemes==2.4.0) (3.1.2)
Building wheels for collected packages: ttkthemes
  Building wheel for ttkthemes (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for ttkthemes: filename=ttkthemes-2.4.0-cp27-cp27mu-linux_x86_64.whl size=1694955 sha256=656caee6a2009dccb1ae713b0f740e7a9af676a865faaea0f293d337b392075a
  Stored in directory: /home/rick/.cache/pip/wheels/7d/8f/d8/7fc3019d9036a22e80b10bb10c19893baff26af9fe31aba101
Successfully built ttkthemes
Installing collected packages: ttkthemes
Successfully installed ttkthemes-2.4.0

Thanks for both of yours help. I'll close the comment now :)

It is a bit unfortunate that you used Python 2 successfully, but I'm glad I don't need to help with Python 2 more :)

TkinterEP / ttkthemes

Last ttkthemes version supporting Python 2.7 #86