I can't alter the import statement as the error log is pointing to one of the installed python files 'hashlib.py'
/python/2.6.2/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py and I don't have the right permissions to alter the python installation. Any idea? On 10/29/09, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > please don't post this to comp.lang.python *and* the python mailinglist. > Both are synchronized, so your post shows up twice on both. > >> I am trying to run a python script and got this error. >> >>>>import _md5 >>>>ImportError: No module named _md5 > > I've never seen this import. Normally, it should be > > import md5 > > So you might try to alter the import statement to > > import md5 as _md5 > > and see if things work. > > It might be of course that the author of your script provided a home-grown > implementation of md5 which has a different interface, and called this _md5 > to prevent name-clashes. Then you need to modify your whole script to make > it work. > >> >> Googling the problem suggested that I install the 'py25-hashlib'. >> >> the following does not work for me 'sudo port install py25-hashlib' , >> trying to install MacPorts raised many problems. >> >> My question is: any idea on how to install it using yum? >> I am running python 2.6.2 on a centos machine. > > I don't understand this - you are talking about ports which is a Mac-thing, > but run on centos? > > However that may be, this *should* be part of core python anyway. If not, > you might look in yum for some python-dependency-packages, no idea how to > do that though (debian user here) > > Diez > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Wadienil. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
