I successfully installed javabridge using $pip3 install javabridge on my Mac's virtual environment. But when I tried to import javabridge in my python3 code, this is what I get:
import javabridge
Failed to run /usr/libexec/java_home, defaulting to best guess for Java
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/javabridge/locate.py", line 45, in find_javahome
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), "Libraries"),
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/bin/../lib/python3.6/posixpath.py", line 92, in join
genericpath._check_arg_types('join', a, *p)
File "/Users/puifai/Documents/data_science/venv/venv3/bin/../lib/python3.6/genericpath.py", line 151, in _check_arg_types
raise TypeError("Can't mix strings and bytes in path components") from None
TypeError: Can't mix strings and bytes in path components
Any ideas on how to fix this? It looks like a problem with Python rather than javabridge?
Pardon the less-than-complete answer, but it has to do with the difference in strings between Python2 and Python3. Working in Python2.7 will at least get you around the problem for the moment. See this post for more background.