On Oct 4, 8:31 pm, Silfheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 4, 7:39 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Silfheed wrote: > > > Heyas > > > > So I'm trying to do two things, install a little gnome taskbar applet > > > (timer-applet) that was written in python and experiment with writing > > > python gtk apps. I've installed (through yast) gtk, gtk2, gtk2-devel, > > > python-gtk, python-gtk-devl, python-gtk-doc but I still cant get > > > python to import gtk. I set PYTHONPATH = /usr/lib/python2.5/site- > > > packages/ and that got importing pygtk to work, but the little app I > > > downloaded wants to import gtk and I just cant figure out what I'm > > > supposed to set PYTHONPATH to in order to get `import gtk` to work. > > > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or missing? > > > > Thanks > > > set PYTHONPATH to /usr/lib/python2.5/lib/site-packages:gtk-root-dir > > > By the way, do you really think that it's necessary to put site-packages > > on the path? You might find it's already on there as Python starts up. > > > You can tell by printing sys.path from Python. > > Yes, it actually requires adding the site-packages to the PYTHONPATH > to get pygtk to work. So far I've managed to get gtk to give a > different error when I added the site-packages/gtk-2.0/ directory (the > only gtk-like thing in the site-packages) to the PYTHONPATH > `ImportError: gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol: > PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject`. I'll have to check the path when I get > home to see what it actually has within it and work from there. > > Thanks.
So after checking sys.path and snooping around a bit more, it turns out that I have two python site-package directories... one in /usr/lib and one in /usr/local/lib.. One is automatically stuck into sys.path (but allowed root access only) while the other is not. I dunno why this is, but is there a way to get python to see both of these automatically (without PYTHONPATH?) Not that this solves my problem since after changing the permissions to world readable on the sys.path listed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, it still wont let me import gtk. This is all after installing everything with yast (which says that I have gtk).. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
