Bugzilla Bug 60091

After emerging kiki I could not play, starting a new game did a segfault with
this error:
 File "/usr/share/games/kiki//py/world.py", line 137, in create
    if type (world_dict) == types.StringType:
NameError: name 'types' is not defined
[ERROR] KikiPyAction::perform failed "kikipy action"
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
free(): invalid pointer 0x84fd1e0!


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge kiki
2. Try a new game.

Created an attachment (id=37247) [edit]
the file world.py did not import types which is needed in the file, so it add
it.

I dont know a lot about python, but it seems to be related to a newer version
of python which need to import types to use types.StringType as opposed to old
versions.

kiki needs python 2.2 in order to work correctly.  Is that what version of
python you're using?

Any of the python group feel like taking a shot at making kiki work with python
2.3?

Created an attachment (id=37783) [edit]
kiki-0.9.0.ebuild

This ebuild will make it compile with 2.3. It says in the Readme it will work
with Python 2.3*, but I don't have a 3D card in my machine to test it on at the
moment. 

Here's the traceback I get using that ebuild:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/games/kiki//py/env.py", line 70, in ?
    execfile(kikipy_path + "world.py")
  File "/usr/share/games/kiki//py/world.py", line 4, in ?
    import random
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/random.py", line 62, in ?
    import _random
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_random.so: undefined symbol: PyMem_Malloc

Created an attachment (id=38391) [edit]
Fix linking

Rob Cakebreads ebuild just needs Kristian Benoits import fix + this little fix
to make it link against the correct library to work with python-2.3. I haven't
tested it against python-2.2 but the game works fine using 2.3 now.

Adjusting the ebuild to include this patch is left as an exercise to the reader
:)

Huge thanks to the python guys. kiki-0.9.0-r1.ebuild should be more fun with
newer python.