Hello,
I am developing an extension for Slicer that offers a GUI for runnning 3D surface segmentation. The GUI and the segmentation algorithm both work fine separately, but I need to call my own python environment in the extension code to start the process automatically. The idea is to execute in a scripted cli module a command with os.system() that runs the segmentation program in the right environment. I was able to make it work on a local environment on my machine, even when both python versions are different. But there are errors when trying to do it from Slicer’s Python. At first I had issues because __sysconfingdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py file was missing. I followed the instructions written on page 394 of 3D Slicer documentation, but now the error that I get is “AssertionError: SRE module mismatch”. I added a wrapper script (bash script) to try and fix the issue but I still get the same error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/path/to/segmentationfile/segmentation_code.py”, line 16, in
import argparse
File “/tools/Slicer4/Slicer-4.13.0-2021-09-18-linux-amd64/lib/Python/lib/python3.6/argparse.py”, line 89, in
import re as _re
File “/tools/Slicer4/Slicer-4.13.0-2021-09-18-linux-amd64/lib/Python/lib/python3.6/re.py”, line 123, in
import sre_compile
File “/tools/Slicer4/Slicer-4.13.0-2021-09-18-linux-amd64/lib/Python/lib/python3.6/sre_compile.py”, line 17, in
assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, “SRE module mismatch”
AssertionError: SRE module mismatch
As you can see python looks for argparse.py in the Slicer Python library, even though I explicitely provide another python path when executing the segmentation script.
One thing to note is that I don’t have this issue when running the same command from my main scripted module. The script for the segmentation runs without error. However I need this to work through a CLI module in order for the GUI to not freeze while the script is running.