Mystic, Mac, and Python
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markdhughes · 2019-02-14 13:59

Currently trying to get my BBS set back up after about 3 decades, so
I'm starting with Mystic. I have a Mac mini to host it on, and
everything's fine there.

What's not fine is the Python integration, which just doesn't seem to
work:

    % which python2.7
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
    % ./mystic -u… -p… -ytestpython
    Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 for macOS Node 1
    Copyright (C) 1997-2019 By James Coyle
    Detecting terminal emulation: ANSI detected.
    % tail logs/errors.log
    2019.14.02 05:41:51 MYSTIC 001 An error has occured (216)

I've tried the obvious

    export
PYTHONHOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7

and it makes no difference.

Any ideas? What's error 216, other than "No Python for you"?

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thesecretdave · 2019-02-14 20:33

If you don’t know it already, you could try installing the Homebrew
version of Python from https://brew.sh. Brew is a community maintained
package manager and contains many many well tested linux-style
packages and will most likely include a slightly more compatible
version of Python. MacOS may have become the best OS in the world, but
their bundled software (in this case Python) errs on the side of
caution and isn’t always as up-to-date as you may think. Also, you
never know what internals the Apple engineers may have fiddled with to
make the installed version of Python more ‘OSXy’.

I highly recommend brew. With it, you basically end up with a pretty
OS, but with the power of all the linux tools that are normally
missing. It’s the first software I install when setting up any Mac.

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dperry324 · 2019-02-14 23:57

Are you trying to run a py script, or an mpy? Maybe give the full path
to the script when calling it on the command line.

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markdhughes · 2019-02-15 06:49

mpy, but just tried the full path and sub-path and that's no
different.

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dperry324 · 2019-02-16 04:52

Can you try the -u and -p without the -y and see if that works? Im
thinking that there's something else wrong besides the mpy.

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mysticbbs · 2019-02-22 09:31

This can happen when you have a mix and match version of 32-bit and
64-bit Mystic / Python.

Try downloading the other version of Mystic and running it (if you
have 64-bit, try the 32-bit version of Mystic and see if Python
works).