Thanks Malcolm. That really cleared things up for me! Now I can relax, just a little, for the holiday weekend. That was really driving me nuts!
On Aug 29, 6:06 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:00 -0700, lingrlongr wrote: > > I can see some differences between the Python Path for the dev server > > (manage.py runserver) and apache/mod_python. I created an error in a > > template using an invalid tag so the Django pretty error screen > > appears. Using the development server I see: > > > Python Path: ['/home/django/proj/loan', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/ > > usr/lib/python2.5', etc... > > > When setting up my apache conf according to the documentation, the > > Python path looks like this: > > > Python Path: ['/home/django/proj/', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/ > > lib/python2.5', etc... > > > If I set the PythonPath in my apache conf like this, _______the site > > works_____: > > > PythonPath "['/home/django/proj','/home/django/proj/loan'] + sys.path" > > > Thoughts? > > Short version: the problems you were seeing are 100% related to this > problem. Your Python path was incorrect and you started seeing problems. > > Longer version... > > This is something people really seem to struggle with in Python, but > it's a very consistent rule: the parent directory of anything you are > importing must be in the Python search path. So if you are writing > > import foo > > and foo is inside the loan/ directory, then loan/ must in the Python > path. If you are writing > > from loan import foo > > then the parent directory of loan/ must be in the Python path. And so > on. There are some subtleties with things like eggs and .pth files and > so on, but you can ignore those and not be any worse off. > > This is documented in the Django documentation for setting up > mod_python, but it's not something that is special to Django. It's how > Python works. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
