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Where is LO's own python interpreter on linux?

asked 2021-04-30 11:37:40 +0200

deivh gravatar image

I'm trying to connect an IDE (like Geany, Thonny, PyCharm) to LibreOffice so i can open an odt in LO, create a python macro inside the odt file with APSO, modify it within my IDE and have an interpreter and a debug environment.

Every tutorial refers to a libreoffice own python interpreter but i can't seem to find it. Where is it? Libreoffice 7.1, fedora 34, python 3.9

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find <libreofficeinstalldir>/program -name "*python*" and tell us where you get LibreOffice from (Fedora, TDF, elsewhere ... on TDF packaging it is part of libobasis7.1-pyuno-

Opaque gravatar imageOpaque ( 2021-04-30 11:42:46 +0200 )edit

libreoffice from fedora. That find command returns many results, should i look for something in particular? besides, Lo python macros are working fine.

deivh gravatar imagedeivh ( 2021-04-30 12:44:44 +0200 )edit

APSO know the interpreter running itself, all you need:

Extras > Extensionmanager > select APSO > Options and choose the path to your Editor, for Example: /usr/bin/geany

edit: AFAIK Fedora-Libreoffice link to there OS-python-environment.

karolus gravatar imagekarolus ( 2021-04-30 13:00:19 +0200 )edit

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answered 2021-04-30 12:54:11 +0200

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TDF releases just bundle an own Python version (as program/python and program/python.bin) , because PyUNO has a C++ component, which must be linked to Python C interfaces. These change between minor versions (there are quite a few

#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= ...

in the LibreOffice source (as pyuno/source/**) with various 0x03080000, 0x03090000 and 0x03040000 tests).

But Linux distros normally have a main Python version, so they compile PyUNO against that, and LO doesn't have to provide its own one.

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ok, got it, so on linux there's no need to follow those guides that say u have to set the python path. Thank you

deivh gravatar imagedeivh ( 2021-05-04 15:29:41 +0200 )edit
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