Runtime error: "AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?" - installed from AUR

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Thank you Stuart @stuartlangridge for developing, and Jeffrey @jbouter for packaging on AUR.

Getting "AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?" on Manjaro (= pretty much stable Arch, current as of March 2024, stable kernel, GNOME 45.4, X11). Installed with Pacman from AUR (no errors/warnings reported during installation):

# as non-root user - but the same error when run as root, too
❯ hushboard 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hushboard", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('hushboard==0.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'hushboard')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/hushboard", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 202, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/hushboard/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from . import pulsectl
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/hushboard/pulsectl.py", line 334, in <module>
    class Pulse(object):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/hushboard/pulsectl.py", line 604, in Pulse
    card_profile_set_by_index = _pulse_method_call(
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/hushboard/pulsectl.py", line 596, in _pulse_method_call
    func_args = list(inspect.getargspec(func or (lambda: None)))
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?

Background:

❯ which hushboard 
/usr/bin/hushboard

~ is 📦 v0.7.0 via  v20.4.0 via 🦀 v1.76.0-nightly 
❯ file /usr/bin/hushboard 
/usr/bin/hushboard: Python script, ASCII text executable

❯ vim /usr/bin/hushboard 

❯ head -n 2 /usr/bin/hushboard 
#!/usr/bin/python
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'hushboard==0.0.1','console_scripts','hushboard'

❯ /usr/bin/python --version
Python 3.11.7

I'm not a Python developer. If you'd like me to investigate, please suggest steps to do, or even better, commands to run.

[stuartlangridge]

Huh. OK, the problem is that Python's inspect.getargspec was deprecated when I used it (which I didn't realise) and has now been dropped (in your 3.11, but not in my 3.10). So I'll need to work out how to reimplement that bit in Proper Modern Code. Good catch!

[rrthomas]

30 fixes this.