martinnorth wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> martinnorth schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am running Python and MySQL on Ubuntu and have installed MySQLdb. If >>> I try to import MySQLdb I get the following error: >>> >>> ActivePython 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on >>> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 16:42:08) >>> [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import MySQLdb >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >>> ImportError: No module named MySQLdb >>> >>> But if I lrun python as the root user it imports fine. Can anyone >>> suggest what might be wrong with the installation? Or is there nothing >>> wrong? I haven't seen any examples that mentioned being root to import >>> a module. >> >> Try importing sys and printing out sys.path both with a "normal" account >> and the root-account, to see if there are any differences. And of course >> make sure both actually use the same interpreter. >> >> Beyond that, you are right: there is no root-only-importing. >> >> Diez > > Now that I look at, it appears it might not be the same interpreter. > When running python as root I get: > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42) > [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > Which is completely different from when I'm a normal user (see original > post). And yes, sys.path is different. > > Being somewhat new to python and linux, how would I go about fixing > this? How do I get a normal user to run the same interpreter? Is it to > do with my PATH?
Yes, you can either invoke the standard interpreter explicitly with $ /usr/bin/python or remove /the/path/to/activestate/python from your PATH. (If you were just experimenting and don't really need ActiveState I recommend that you remove it completely) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
