"Joal Heagney" wrote: > Hi everyone. I've been getting this error message in python, and it's
> really driving me up the wall. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] joal]$ python > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > Python 2.3.4 (#1, Apr 18 2005, 19:03:06) > [GCC 3.4.1] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> > > Here's the relevant line when i run python in verbose mode: > > > 'import site' failed; traceback: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site.py", line 169, in ? > sys.lib, > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lib' > > Is this a Mandrake or a Python mistake? > And does anyone know how to fix it? > > I think this is the reason why I'm getting errors when it comes to > importing other python packages. I have both python 2.3.4 and 2.4.1 installed on Mandrake 10.1 - and only 2.4.1 gives the error. So - have you tried to install python 2.4 recently? Also, are you using a pythonrc.py startup file which is trying to import the sys module? Have a look to see if a PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable has been set to the path of such a file. HTH John Ridley ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list