swap out pipes for shlex #127
Description
Vibe coded the following fix for an error on an AUR install.Not a coder, so not sure how to do pull requests.
Well, that's not quite true. I have done 1 pull request. It was for ly2video, and it was 13 years ago! I see you got around to trying it out a few years back... we're like ships in the night here.
The ly2video package you installed is failing because it relies on the pipes module, which was removed in Python 3.13. The package has not been updated to support this new version of Python.
The pkg_resources warning you see is separate and harmless for now, but the ModuleNotFoundError is a crash that requires a fix.
Since you installed this via the AUR, the quickest solution is to manually patch the installed file.
How to Fix It (Manual Patch)
You need to edit the file mentioned in your error message to use the modern shlex module instead of the removed pipes module.
Open the file in a text editor with root privileges:
Bash
sudo nano /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ly2video/cli.py
Find line 30 (the import): Change:
Python
import pipes
To:
Python
import shlex
Find and replace usages of pipes.quote: Search for pipes.quote in the file (Ctrl+W in nano) and replace every instance with shlex.quote.
Change pipes.quote( to shlex.quote(.
Save and Exit: (Ctrl+O, Enter, then Ctrl+X).
Try running ly2video again.