Month: May 2023

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Run ssh on Pythonista 3.4

I managed to run ssh.py written in Python 2 on StaSh for Pythonista 3 (ver. 3.4). Here I share what I did.

Note

The StaSh ssh command is not the best ssh client as it makes iPhone warmer than usual, and StaSh does not have dedicated control or escape virtual key which are well used in Linux/Unix systems. So, I would suggest a SSH client app such as Termius if you’r looking for a serious SSH client. This post is rather for those of you who are interested in running (converting) Python 2 scripts on Pythonista 3.4.

Pythonista 3.4 does not include Python 2.7 any longer. Scripts written in Python 2 need to be converted to Python 3 scripts. The script ssh.py comes with StaSh was written in Python 2. Converting it by the Python 2 to 3 tool was not enough.

“Python 2 to 3” tool can be found under the tool menu.

Version info (StaSh version command)

$ version
StaSh v0.8.0
Python 3.10.4 (CPython)
UI stash.system.shui.pythonista_ui
root: ~/Documents/site-packages/stash
core.py: 2023-05-05 18:00:40
SELFUPDATE_TARGET: master
Pythonista 3.4 (340012)
iOS 16.4.1 (64-bit iPhone10,2)
Platform iOS-16.4.1-iPhone10,2-64bit
BIN_PATH:
  ~/Documents/bin
  ~/Documents/stash_extensions/bin
  ~/Documents/site-packages/stash/bin

StaSh is the latest dev version as of May 12, 2023 (Please refer to another post for the StaSh installation.)

List of things I did

I restarted Pythonista 3 as needed. (You can find how to generate SSH keys in my other post. It has a tip to adjust number of rows.)

  1. Copy ~/Documents/site-packages/stash/bin/ssh.py to ~/Documents/stash_extensions/bin as ssh3.py
  2. Open ssh3.py and execute the “Python 2 to 3” tool. Apply all suggestions.
  3. Edit function vk_tapped() and treat vk.name as int (details below)
  4. Open ~/Documents/site-packages/stash/system/shscreens.py and execute the “Python 2 to 3” tool. Apply all suggestions.
  5. Replace / with // on lines 541 and 576 of shscreens.py. They are now like this: idx_line, idx_column = idx // (ncolumns + 1), idx % (ncolumns + 1)
  6. Execute the command ssh3 in StaSh

Actual code after the changes of the vk_tapped() function is below. Lines 242-262. Rename vk.name to vk, and replace'k_tab' with relative integer. By this change, virtual keys like Tab, Up, CC work on the SSH server as tab, up arrow and control+C respectively.

    def vk_tapped(self, vk):
        if vk == 7:
            self.send('t')
        elif vk == 0:
            self.kc_pressed('C', CTRL_KEY_FLAG)
        elif vk == 1:
            self.kc_pressed('D', CTRL_KEY_FLAG)
        elif vk == 6:
            self.kc_pressed('U', CTRL_KEY_FLAG)
        elif vk == 9:
            self.kc_pressed('Z', CTRL_KEY_FLAG)
        elif vk == 2:
            self.kc_pressed('UIKeyInputUpArrow', 0)
        elif vk == 3:
            self.kc_pressed('UIKeyInputDownArrow', 0)

        elif vk == 10:
            if _stash.terminal.is_editing:
                _stash.terminal.end_editing()
            else:
                _stash.terminal.begin_editing()

Actual errors and helpful info to fix

I got the below error after converting shscreens.py to a Python 3 script (step #4):

system/shscreens.py", line 578, in load_pyte_screen
    c = pyte_screen.buffer[idx_line][idx_column]
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not float

Somehow adding int(idx_line) and int(idx_column) before line 578 didn’t resolve this issue. Helpful info (or answer) was found in this old issue:

My guess would be that stash uses / division for line/column indices. On Python 3 / always produces a float. The fix is simple: replace it with flooring division //.

https://github.com/selectel/pyte/issues/123

Another error that wast the reason of the change step #3 was this:

  File "stash_extensions/bin/ssh3.py", line 230, in vk_tapped
    if vk.name == 'k_tab':
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'name'

I am still not sure how this worked in Python 2. Without fixing this you can establish a VPN connection, but virtual keys won’t function. To fix this issue, I added print(vk) at the top of the def block. After connecting an SSH session, I pressed each virtual key (Tab, Up, CC, etc.), opened Console to confirm the number and replaced with the name. There should be better way but this worked.

Lastly this was the reason of my motivation to make the ssh command work.

StaSh works with both Pythonista 2 and 3, though not all commands support python3.

https://github.com/ywangd/stash

Image by Stable Diffusion

Off topic: The eye-catch image was generated by Mochi Diffusion, a Stable Diffusion client for macOS. Added “SSH” on the AI generated image using a graphic editor. Below is the details:

Date:
2023/5/6/ 22:31:24

Model:
realisticVision-v20_split-einsum

Size:
512 x 512

Include in Image:
cartoon, a young man waring glasses, super happy

Exclude from Image:


Seed:
3826992198

Steps:
20

Guidance Scale:
11.0

Scheduler:
DPM-Solver++

ML Compute Unit:
CPU & Neural Engine
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Pythonista 3.4 is out now (supporting Python 3.10)

I thought the development discontinued…, but I was wrong!

Running on iPad. Output of Stash version command. See Python is 3.10.4.

Python is now 3.10.4. Python 2 is no longer included.

After 3 years of silence, the great Python IDE for iOS/iPadOS, Pythonista 3 is finally released. You can now execute your Python 3.10 codes.

Pythonista 3 ← Link to the App Store

For details (not very much, tough), visit the official website below:

https://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs-3.4/py3/ios/new.html

Since Python 2.7 is no longer included, you cannot run codes written in Python 2.x directly. E.g. SSH command in StaSh does not run unless you make a few changes (I’ll post another article how you can make the ssh command work).

StaSh, a bash-like shell environment for Pythonista is not fully compatible yet. Installer works, and pip command is able to install packages, but somehow entries in the .stashrc file is not fully loaded – only the fist line becomes available.

StaSh installation

It is recommended to cleaninstall Pythonista 3 to install StaSh. Even in the last few days the installation process changed, so I recommend to visit the official Github constantly. For me the dev version works better (mainly ‘ls -l’). You can copy the command below and execute in Console to install the dev version.

url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ywangd/stash/dev/getstash.py'; import requests as r; exec(r.get(url).text.replace('master', 'dev'))

As advised, exit and relaunch Pythonista 3, and run launch_stash.py located in “This iPhone” to execute the StaSh shell.

Let’s install Django 4.0 (latest 4.2.1 won’t work.)

As far as I testd, Django version 4.0 can build the test page. Latest version 4.2.1 will be installed if you do not specify the version number, however it won’t run with an error regarding openssl_md5 when you launch django-admin. Copy and execute the below in StaSh.

pip install django==4.0

In my case, StaSh installation logs and pip show Django reads version 4.2.1 but in Console, import django then print(django.__version__) shows “4.0” correctly.

Anyways, after a successful installation of Django, restart Pythonista 3, launch StaSh and execute the below:

django-admin startproject mysite

You can now add an argument below to manage.py in the editor window (press and hold ▷ button then add the arg) and run.

runserver --noreload

If you see an error message “CommandError: You must set settings. ALLOWED_HOSTS if DEBUG is False“, simply ignore for now and restart Pythonista 3 then run manage.py again. Also, allow network access if asked by iOS.

If all goes well you see the URL http://127.0.0.1:8000/ . Either tap to open in Pythonista built-in browser or copy-paste in a web browser to open the page. Congrats! A rocket GIF image means your Django site is working! I have a few Django in StaSh/Pythonista articles in my website for little more detailed instructions.

I never expected an update so I’m happy.

Recently I was playing anotehr iOS app, a-Shell which is a Unix/Linux-like shell environment where you can write and run Python 3.11 codes. I like it as it’s more like a standard CLI shell with multiple programming languages, you can edit code in vim editor, etc. One thing I was disappointed about is the behavior of Django and Flask web apps — you need to open web browser and a-Shell back and forth to process the code. Pythonista 3 is a great IDE and StaSh is a nice tiny shell to play with. I expect StaSh will catch up soon. I’m back to Pythonista 3 and will post more articles.

Image by Stable Diffusion

This is totally off topic — I start adding details of Mochi Diffusion generated image when I add one as an eye-catching image. This one was generated with only 20 steps so looks bit scary, kinda typical AI generated image, but when I increased to the max 50 steps of Mochi Diffusion, people didn’t that look happy. Decided to go with more passionated image. And it should be more suitable than a free-of-use beautiful photograph of nature which isn’t related to the article at all.

Date:
2023年5月6日 14:35:09

Model:
realisticVision-v20_split-einsum

Size:
512 x 512

Include in Image:
cartoon, people happy with a new release of software

Exclude from Image:


Seed:
3343127351

Steps:
20

Guidance Scale:
11.0

Scheduler:
DPM-Solver++

ML Compute Unit:
CPU & Neural Engine
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