Question

I am trying to use the python library mosquitto for writing a program for maemo. I am using the package libmosquitto, which provides a mosquitto.py library file (http://mosquitto.org/documentation/python/).

The program import mosquitto using the following line of code:

import mosquitto

The program runs fine on my desktop, but failed on the device with the following error:

NameError: name 'c_bool' is not defined

I am using python2.5 on the device. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

c_bool isn’t defined in python 2.5. It’s new in 2.6:

http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.c_bool

Possibly you could get away with adding

c_bool = c_int

after the line that reads

from ctypes import *

in mosquitto.py. Seems sketchy though…