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Change from pythonnet to WinRT

See original GitHub issue

bleak version: 0.6.1
Python version: 3.8
Operating System: Windows 10 1909
BlueZ version (bluetoothctl -v) in case of Linux:

Description

Bleak fails to install on Windows 10 with Python 3.8, as Python 3.8 is not supported by pythonnet, which appears to not officially support python 3.7 or 3.8.

Microsoft have now released WinRT, which is an official python bridge to the WindowsRT APIs, and so it might be possible to use this instead of PythonNet for access to Bluetooth on windows. See https://github.com/beeware/toga/issues/884 for another project that is discussing making this change.

Hopefully, this might solve other open issues tagged with .NET too.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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dlechcommented, Dec 6, 2020

FYI, winrt winrt 1.0.20330.1 is now available for Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 and the GUID issue has been fixed.

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dhalbertcommented, Oct 14, 2020

pythonnet 2.5.x (2.5.1 is latest as of now) supports python 3.8.

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