heuer/segno

Unable to animate qr using .to_artistic()

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prettyflyforabeeguy commented

I am unable to get a QR code to animate using the .to_artistic()
The QR code generates with the background but it's a frozen .gif and never animates. I've tried this on both Linux and Windows machines but get the same result. I've tried using both Python v3.9.2 and Python v3.10.7

Example code taken from here

`# animated_qrcode.py

import segno
from urllib.request import urlopen

slts_qrcode = segno.make_qr("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg")
nirvana_url = urlopen("https://media.giphy.com/media/LpwBqCorPvZC0/giphy.gif")
slts_qrcode.to_artistic(
background=nirvana_url,
target="animated_qrcode.gif",
scale=5,
)`

juansulca commented

Hey, I had the same issue today, and found out that running the command:

pip install setuptools

installed the missing package for it to work.

Hope this helps.

prettyflyforabeeguy commented

Hey, I had the same issue today, and found out that running the command:

pip install setuptools

installed the missing package for it to work.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion, however I already have that installed.
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (52.0.0)

I'm not receiving any error message, everything generates the QR code just fine, the only problem is they don't animate.

heuer commented

There was a bug introduced in release 3.0.0, see heuer/qrcode-artistic#12.

Animated QR code do not work. I'll release a fixed version today.

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heuer commented

Should work now. Please use qrcode-artistic 3.0.2 (pip install -U qrcode-artistic).

prettyflyforabeeguy commented

Confirmed it's working. Thank you!!!!

heuer commented

Hey, I had the same issue today, and found out that running the command:

pip install setuptools

installed the missing package for it to work.

Hope this helps.

A new version of Segno was released as well. setuptools shouldn't be a requirement anymore. Segno uses the standard lib to provide the plugins since it drops support for Python 2 with this release.