peterg75

I first started using Manjaro after being on Debian/Ubuntu derivatives for years. Mint used to be my daily driver, then LMDE for a while. After struggling with Endeavour OS, through 2 or 3 breaking updates requiring a reinstall I made Manjaro with KDE Plasma my home for several years.

Manjaro was stable and, I thought blazing fast, compared to Mint. Everything just worked and was cutting edge. I thought my distro hopping days were over and I found the one that works for me.

Recently I've been reading about Cachy OS and decided to give it a whirl on my test Dell Latitude. Turns out that, I had no idea how fast and lean Linux could be on that off-lease business laptop! I know have it installed on my main Laptop and it's leaps and bounds faster than Manjaro, has none of the bloat and just works! I know it's early, but I think I have found a new home! I have timeshift set up just in case, so I'll see how stable it is over the next few months, but so far I am impressed.

Highly recommend everyone who's into Arch and rolling release to try it.

Hello, Python Community!

Has someone been able to successfully connect to an IBM Informix DB with a Python app? I have the following environment: DEV: Windows 11 Python 3.13.3 64-bit VS Code

DB: IBM Informix 12.10 hosted in Azure I'm able to connect to it usind DBeaver (JDBC)

I have tried the following libraries to try to establish the connection: ibm_db: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\ibm_db_test.py", line 1, in <module> import ibm_db as db ImportError: DLL load failed while importing ibm_db: The specified module could not be found._

pyodbc: I have an ODBC DSN connection established Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\pyodbc_test.py", line 3, in <module> conn = db.connect("Dsn='DSN_NAME'") pyodbc.InterfaceError: ('IM002', '[IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (0) (SQLDriverConnect)')

JayDeBeAPI: I have downloaded the same JAR files as DBeaver uses and copied them to a dir local to the project and added the CLASSPATH variable: set "CLASSPATH=%PROJECT_ROOT%\Java\jbc-4.50.10.1.jar:%PROJECT_ROOT%\Java\bson-3.8.0.jar"

File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\JayDeBeApi_test.py", line 3, in <module> dbConn = db.connect("com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver", "jdbc:informix-sqli://hostname:port/db_name:INFORMIXSERVER=server_name", ['user', 'pass']) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 412, in connect jconn = _jdbc_connect(jclassname, url, driver_args, jars, libs) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 221, in _jdbc_connect_jpype jpype.JClass(jclassname) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jpype\_jclass.py", line 99, in __new__ return _jpype._getClass(jc) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^ TypeError: Class com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver is not found

PyInformix: SADeprecationWarning: The dbapi() classmethod on dialect classes has been renamed to import_dbapi(). Implement an import_dbapi() classmethod directly on class <class 'pyinformix.ifx_jdbc.InformixJDBCDialect'> to remove this warning; the old .dbapi() classmethod may be maintained for backwards compatibility. engine = create_engine('informix+ifx_jdbc://hostname:port/db_name;INFORMIXSERVER=server_name;delimident=y;user=user;password=pass') Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\PyInformix_test.py", line 5, in <module> conn = engine.connect() File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 3274, in connect return self._connection_cls(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 146, in __init__ self._dbapi_connection = engine.raw_connection() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 3298, in raw_connection return self.pool.connect() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 449, in connect return _ConnectionFairy._checkout(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 1264, in _checkout fairy = _ConnectionRecord.checkout(pool) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 713, in checkout rec = pool._do_get() File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\impl.py", line 179, in _do_get with util.safe_reraise(): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\util\langhelpers.py", line 146, in __exit__ raise exc_value.with_traceback(exc_tb) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\impl.py", line 177, in _do_get return self._create_connection() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 390, in _create_connection return _ConnectionRecord(self) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 675, in __init__ self.__connect() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 901, in __connect with util.safe_reraise(): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\util\langhelpers.py", line 146, in __exit__ raise exc_value.with_traceback(exc_tb) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 897, in __connect self.dbapi_connection = connection = pool._invoke_creator(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\create.py", line 646, in connect return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\default.py", line 625, in connect return self.loaded_dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams) # type: ignore[no-any-return] # NOQA: E501 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 412, in connect jconn = _jdbc_connect(jclassname, url, driver_args, jars, libs) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 221, in _jdbc_connect_jpype jpype.JClass(jclassname) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jpype\_jclass.py", line 99, in __new__ return _jpype._getClass(jc) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^ TypeError: Class com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver is not found

IfxPy:

Uanble to install, seems that it does not support the latest Python 3 version.

Any help would be appreciated. I can attach the sample code of every method I tried if that would help.

It may be just me, but all images appear to be broken when browsing to Discuss.Online in the web browser.

Let's resurrect SCM on Lemmy!

Not sure if I'm missing something, but I have changed my password on one of my accounts and couldn't find an option in Sync to update it. Is there an option? I had to remove the account and re-add it back to update the password which, IMHO, is a less than ideal way of handling this scenario.

I have been using Lemmy for a while now and decided to "branch out" from Lemmy.world to another instance. I used lasim to migrate all of my subscriptions over to the new account on Discuss.online. What I was expecting is to have the default view which is Everything, sorted by Hot, be somewhat similar between instances, but it is completely different. Can someone explain this? Does every instance build its own statistics that are used for the "Hot" and "Active" sort?

Is there an easy way to migrate from one instance to another? I’d love to be able to move my subscriptions and profile settings at the very least.