1.8.1 makepanda 3/2

Compiling or Editing the Panda Source
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I’m trying to compile panda3d, on Linux Mint Debian, using makepanda. Since the .DEBs give a depency error.
Now i get an strange error:
If i invoke makepanda.py with python2.7 it tries to import the module queue which is actually named Queue in python2 and renamed to queue in python3.
So i tried to run with python3:
I got an error about a dictionary changing its size during iteration. I often get this error when running python2 scripts with python3.
So the final question is:
For which version of python is the makepanda of panda3d 1.8.1 made for? I don’t think it would be a good idea to just replace every occurrence of queue with Queue. Because this doesn’t seem to be an error someone doesn’t see.

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Currently, you shouldn’t compile Panda3D yet with Python 3. It is not supported. You should use 2.7 instead.

Makepanda only imports the “queue” module if it detects being run in Python 3:

    if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
        import queue
    else:
        import Queue as queue

So, if it is importing queue regardless, something really weird is going on with your Python 2.7 installation.

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I now found the error. The if statement you showed in your post isn’t in the file. Instead the module Queue (with upper Q) is imported. I downloaded this version of panda3d a lot of time ago. I think i changed the Queue to queue myself. Trying to compile with python3. I just downloaded the package again. And now it seems to work.