Make sure promnesia works under Windows

Windows 10 with Python 3.7.6.

When I run promnesia demo --port 16789 https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain I get error:

c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\kython\klogging2.py:27: UserWarning: You might want to install 'logzero' for nice colored logs!
  warnings.warn("You might want to install 'logzero' for nice colored logs!")
[INFO    2020-05-18 20:49:57,102 promnesia common.py:329] extracting via promnesia.sources.guess:index ('https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain',) {} ... ...
[INFO    2020-05-18 20:49:57,102 promnesia common.py:329] extracting via promnesia.sources.guess:index ('https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain',) {} ... ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\anaconda\Scripts\promnesia.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\__main__.py", line 173, in main
    do_demo(index_as=getattr(args, 'as'), params=args.params, port=args.port, config_file=args.config)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\__main__.py", line 110, in do_demo
    errors = _do_index()
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\__main__.py", line 49, in _do_index
    hist, errors = previsits_to_history(ex, src=ex.src)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\common.py", line 333, in previsits_to_history
    previsits = list(extr()) # TODO DEFENSIVE HERE!!!
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\sources\guess.py", line 33, in index
    yield from index_(path, *args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\site-packages\promnesia\sources\vcs.py", line 15, in index
    check_call(['git', 'clone', repo, tp])
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 358, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 339, in call
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 800, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 1148, in _execute_child
    args = list2cmdline(args)
  File "c:\anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 555, in list2cmdline
    needquote = (" " in arg) or ("\t" in arg) or not arg
TypeError: argument of type 'WindowsPath' is not iterable

So how can I run this program on Windows?

[mdroidian]

I have a (fairly) fresh Windows install and had no issues with Promnesia this go around! Right in Windows, not via WSL.

• Installed Python 3.10.2 (Windows installer (64-bit)) via python.org
• pip3 install --user promnesia
• added a folder to PATH
• promnesia demo https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain seemed to run fine
• promnesia config create, added a local folder with .md files, promnesia index
• promnesia serve

Seems good 👍

[AB1908]

So, is the WSL version working properly?

Update: It does! Strangely, there’s some path issues so have to use python3 -m promnesia vs promnesia.