I'm running into problems where Python and VTK both ship with their own distribution of the Expat parser. As long as you never use the Python XML package, everything is fine. But if you try using the Python XML parser after doing an `import vtk', a nice little message saying "Segmentation Fault" is your reward.
For now, the workaround is to save the `import vtk' until after I do all my XML parsing. However, we're starting to build a rather large framework using Python and VTK, and I cannot guarantee that the VTK libraries won't be in memory when some of my XML parsing routines are called. I know that the VTK build has an option for forcing it to use an installation of Expat that's already on the system. But after looking at the Python build scripts, I can't find any such option for Python. Is this at all possible? I know that there is a way to tell Python to link to arbitrary libraries, but I don't know how to turn off the building of the "custom" Expat that comes with Python. Thanks for any tips, pointers, and insight. -- Steve Juranich Tucson, AZ USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
