[BRLTTY] brlapi programming examples

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Aug 25 14:15:45 EDT 2020


Hello,

Mika Hanhijärvi, le mar. 25 août 2020 20:54:31 +0300, a ecrit:
> #!/usr/bin/python3
> import brlapi
> 
> try:
>   b = brlapi.Connection()
>   b.enterTtyMode()

> If I understand it correctly that should work

Yes, that's alright.

> but when I run that I get this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./test5.py", line 6, in <module>
>     b.enterTtyMode()
>   File "brlapi.pyx", line 446, in brlapi.Connection.enterTtyMode
> brlapi.OperationError: <exception str() failed>

That's odd, I tried it in a VM, without problem.

Unfortunately it seems the exception printing got broken.

You can however check the brltty logs, you can raise its verbosity to
debug and add the server category in /etc/brltty.conf's log-level line.

Samuel


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