Cannot import Draft library

[xbit]

When i typed inside a freecad-daily interactive python console:

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import PySide
import PySide2

both of these worked. No complaint.

But how can i use these outside of an interactive freecad-daily python shell, and use a standalone python script?
All i want to do is load the Draft module.

[Kunda1]

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What's the thread you wrote about being able to do this ?

[xbit]

Who? Me? I am confused.

[jmaustpc]

Who? Me? I am confused.

No, he's asking Cyril,

[sgrogan]

Try this from system Python console

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import sys
sys.path.append("<path to FreeCAD.so>")
import FreeCAD
import Draft
import PySide2

I am not sure what the <path to FreeCAD.so> is.
EDIT: I guess for the daily version it should be usr\lib\freecad-daily-python3\lib
EDIT2: Also I think python defaults to python3 on 20.04, but you may try to start with python3 to check.
EDIT3:

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import sys
sys.path.append("usr\lib\freecad-daily-python3\lib")
import FreeCAD
import Draft

[xbit]

Same thing.
I have already tried that.
When i import Draft i get:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/Draft.py", line 53, in <module>
    from draftutils.utils import ARROW_TYPES as arrowtypes
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/draftutils/utils.py", line 39, in <module>
    import PySide.QtCore as QtCore
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PySide'

Is it only me who gets this error?

[xbit]

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pip install pyside

does not work, as pyside does not work with python 3.8

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pip install pyside2

worked, however, when i try to

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import Draft

, i still get:

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>>> import Draft
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/Draft.py", line 53, in <module>
    from draftutils.utils import ARROW_TYPES as arrowtypes
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/draftutils/utils.py", line 39, in <module>
    import PySide.QtCore as QtCore
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PySide'

[xbit]

I used this:

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import sys
for p in sys.path:
	print (p)

and got a list of alla the paths.

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/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Idf
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/PartDesign
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Tux
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Show
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Path
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Robot
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/TechDraw
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Sketcher
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Points
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Raytracing
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Measure
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Inspection
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/MeshPart
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Surface
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Import
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Material
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Fem
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Mesh
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Drawing
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/ReverseEngineering
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Part
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Start
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Image
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/OpenSCAD
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/AddonManager
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Arch
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Test
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Spreadsheet
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Web
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod
/usr/lib/freecad-daily-python3/lib
/usr/share/freecad-daily/Ext
/usr/lib/freecad-daily/bin
/usr/lib/python38.zip
/usr/lib/python3.8
/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
/home/user1/.FreeCAD/Macro
/usr/lib/freecad-daily/Macro

Then i

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sys.path.append()

all of them, then finally i imported Draft. This is the new error

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>>> import Draft
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/Draft.py", line 53, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Mod/Draft/draftutils/utils.py", line 39, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/freecad-daily/Ext/PySide/QtCore.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/user1/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/shiboken2/files.dir/shibokensupport/__feature__.py", line 146, in _import
ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.15' not found (required by /home/user1/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PySide2/QtCore.abi3.so)

I had recently performed a

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sudo apt-get install qt

A colleague with the same computer had the same issue when importing Draft. Are we the only ones getting it?

[jmaustpc]

Are you trying to do this from within FreeCAD in its Python interpretor or are you trying to do this in an external Python interpretor?

[xbit]

UPDATE:
I managed to import Draft.

When i run

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which python3

, i got

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/home/user1/anaconda3/bin/python3

.
This is the anaconda python. Somehow, i coulnt' load the lirbaries for it.
But FreeCAD uses the default python installation.
So when running

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/usr/bin/python3.8

, everything worked!