fontforge python module not properly installed with `fontforge` package

[bendavis78]

brew gist-logs <formula> link OR brew config AND brew doctor output

Brew config and brew doctor output: https://gist.github.com/bendavis78/ad66fcde1884c621f59f353912f22523

Verification

• My "brew doctor output" says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I have resolved all warnings from brew doctor and that did not fix my problem.

Note that I ignored brew doctor warnings that had to do with postgres/black/kubectl as I don't want it to break my current setup. They should not be affecting the current issue.

What were you trying to do (and why)?

Trying to do:

$ python3
>>> import fontforge

What happened (include all command output)?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fontforge'

What did you expect to happen?

Successful import of fontforge python module

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

$ brew install fontforge
$ python3
>>> import fontforge

[SMillerDev]

What does which python3 say? Because fontforge installs for python 3.11

[anajuliabit]

Same issue here. Any updates? @bendavis78

[cho-m]

Based on local test, this looks like a user config/usage issue, so closing.

Can't reproduce when using the Python that formula expects:

$ python3.11 -c 'import fontforge; print(fontforge.version())'
20230101

As already mentioned, we build bindings for Python 3.11.

It is expected that bindings won't be available for any other Python. If you are using default python3 from Homebrew (i.e. right now python@3.10), then it won't work.

The default python3 won't change until #114154. And once it changes, any formulae that only builds bindings for python@3.10 will then need to use python3.10.

Users need to check what version of Python a formula supports, e.g. brew info fontforge. There is no guarantee on what version of Python Homebrew's python3 symlink is set to nor any guarantee that the version of Python used for a formula will remain. These are updated asynchronously as it is not possible to update all Python dependents in Homebrew at same time.