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Using Twisted with Kivy on a Windows Machine

I am attempting to get the example for using Twisted with Kivy on Windows 7 using Python 3.6 and the latest releases of Twisted and Kivy. Following the example located on the Kivy website entitled Integrating with Other Frameworks.

Using the code provided on the Kivy Website verbatim, the following error appears.

File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\kivy\support.py", line 172, in install_twisted_reactor
 "_threadselect interface of twisted is not available on Python 3."
NotImplementedError: _threadselect interface of twisted is not available on Python 3.

Is there a workaround or way to edit Twisted to work with Python 3 until it is ported?

Solution

  • Twisted's "_threadedselect" has been ported to Python 3 and Kivy has been updated to reflect this. However, Kivy has not been released since this change was made. You could try urging the Kivy project to release a version including this fix.

    Or perhaps you could take the kivy.support module from master@HEAD and use it instead.