slcan0

[faheemadam]

hi

if i do a candump slcan0 i can see the traffic. but when i try to use the example it fails.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "python_socketcan_example.py", line 131, in <module>
    main()
  File "python_socketcan_example.py", line 127, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "python_socketcan_example.py", line 93, in listen_cmd
    s = CANSocket(args.interface)
  File "python_socketcan_example.py", line 35, in __init__
    self.sock = socket.socket(socket.PF_CAN, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.CAN_RAW)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PF_CAN'```


another post in issue talks about socket_native

 ^Croot@DietPi:~# python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import can
>>> can.rc['interface'] = 'socketcan_native'
>>> can.rc['channel'] = 'slcan0'
>>> bus = can.interface.Bus()
>>> 

[abencz]

python_socketcan only uses built-in Python libraries and does not depend on any third-party code. Socketcan is only natively supported in Python 3.3+. Python 2.7 does not have built-in socketcan support.

Try running the example with Python 3.