Thanks for your help Steve and F. Petitjean. Sorry for taking so long to get back, I was away from my lab for a few days.
The path to my directory was not included in the sys.path list. Adding a my.pth file to the site-packages directory fixed the import problem. F. Petitjean, I originally edited the PYTHONPATH because "Learning Python," the O'Reilly book, says to do so. I like your and Steve's solutions better--editing the PYTHONPATH seems a little unwieldy--but just to satisfy my curiosity, what are some of the reasons these methods are preferable? Steve, as far as finding out the cause of this problem, I muddled around python and the registry for a while, but nothing jumped out at me. The only thing I can think of is that I have both Python 2.3 and 2.4 installed, and I'm currently working in 2.3. I thought that PYTHONPATH was an environment variable, so having two different versions wouldn't affect it, but I was wondering...should I bother uninstalling 2.4 to see if the prob gets fixed? Other than that I'm still something of a newbie, but I'd love to actually help fix this bug if you can think of anything for me to try (oh joy, my first open source contribution!). Thanks. ~mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
