module 'pypdfium2' has no attribute 'FPDF_LoadDocument'

[awied]

I'm using version 4.8.0.
How to reproduce:

import pypdfium2 as pdfium
doc = pdfium.FPDF_LoadDocument(THE_FILEPATH, None)

--> AttributeError: module 'pypdfium2' has no attribute 'FPDF_LoadDocument'

Observation: this works with version 3.21.1 but seems to be broken starting with version 4.0.0

[mara004]

Not broken. Deliberate change. Read the docs.

[mara004]

Quoting changelog for v4:

The raw API is now isolated in a separate namespace (pypdfium2.raw). Moreover, the raw API bindings do not implicitly encode strings anymore (pypdfium2 is now built with a patched version of ctypesgen by default).

Also worth a read:
https://pypdfium2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python_api.html#api-layers

[mara004]

Your example could be rewritten like this

import pypdfium2.raw as pdfium_c
doc = pdfium_c.FPDF_LoadDocument((THE_FILEPATH+"\x00").encode("utf-8"), None)

However, I encourage using our helper class PdfDocument for document loading.

(Edit: added null terminator, to be safe)

[mara004]

Oh, actually the Readme was highly unclear about this, I forgot to update. I'll push a commit shortly.
I prefer to work with RTD; keeping the Readme in sync has become a bit of a nuisance.