When installing with pip3, svg2paths is not matching documentation

[mewitte]

First time using svgpathtools today, also not too experienced with python. I basically want to use svgpathtools to run some checks and based on them change the path element slightly. That's just how I got to the issue though:

The documentation specifies the following function arguments:

svg2paths(svg_file_location, return_svg_attributes=False, convert_circles_to_paths=True, convert_ellipses_to_paths=True, convert_lines_to_paths=True, convert_polylines_to_paths=True, convert_polygons_to_paths=True, convert_rectangles_to_paths=True)

I installed svgpathtools with pip3 install svgpathtools. When checking for the function used with inspect.getsource(svg2paths), I get the following:

def svg2paths(svg_file_location,
              convert_lines_to_paths=True,
              convert_polylines_to_paths=True,
              convert_polygons_to_paths=True,
              return_svg_attributes=False):
    """
    Converts an SVG file into a list of Path objects and a list of
    dictionaries containing their attributes.  This currently supports
    SVG Path, Line, Polyline, and Polygon elements.
    :param svg_file_location: the location of the svg file
    :param convert_lines_to_paths: Set to False to disclude SVG-Line objects
    (converted to Paths)
    :param convert_polylines_to_paths: Set to False to disclude SVG-Polyline
    objects (converted to Paths)
    :param convert_polygons_to_paths: Set to False to disclude SVG-Polygon
    objects (converted to Paths)
    :param return_svg_attributes: Set to True and a dictionary of
    svg-attributes will be extracted and returned
    :return: list of Path objects, list of path attribute dictionaries, and
    (optionally) a dictionary of svg-attributes

Where does this decrepancy come from? Just a general question, since until now, I didn't have any problems installing modules with pip3

[colbycornish]

@mewitte Did you ever get an answer to this? ...or figure out how to fix the issue?

[colbycornish]

If anyone is reading this and looking for a solution, you can download the package from github, run setup.py, and add the files generated in the build folder to svgpathtools folder in your library. (So I added svgpathtools via pip3, found the library files in my computers path by running 'pip3 show svgpythontools' and then copied the build files into that folder)

[mewitte]

I installed it from the repository (just clone and run python setup.py install from project root). This worked consistently on different machines for me.