OK. I am open to new things and I am definitely open to being wrong. So lets try dabo (results below--how did I know this would happen?). This demonstration is not to pick on the dabo people (I'm sure they mean well), but to give an idea of what I face EVERY time I try to install some new, great, python module. Now the last thing I want to do is to go on a hunt for the source of this error--and fix it, just to find another a little later and another and another--without an inkling of why, in real world practicality, dabo would be so much greater than anything else. So you can see why I stick with one good thing. Its not that I don't want to learn or I am not open, etc. Its just that things don't usually work out of the box, and, to quote GnR, "I ain't got time for the pain."
Incidentally, I'm not really interested in knowing what is wrong here, frankly I haven't even looked at the output except that I notice that it is a stack trace, so don't bother telling me how simple it is to fix and that I should know this or that. You might be right, but I simply don't care at this point. Sorry dabo guys. You are only one of many. James Python 2.3.4 (#4, Oct 25 2004, 21:40:10) [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. py> import MySQLdb py> import wx py> import dabo Dabo Info Log: Sun Jul 31 16:51:08 2005: No default UI set. (DABO_DEFAULT_UI) py> dabo.ui.loadUI("wx") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dabo/ui/__init__.py", line 43, in loadUI exec("from %s import *" % mods[typ], globals()) File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dabo/ui/uiwx/__init__.py", line 84, in ? import dShell File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dabo/ui/uiwx/dShell.py", line 1, in ? import wx, wx.py File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/py/__init__.py", line 8, in ? import crust File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/py/crust.py", line 14, in ? import editwindow File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/py/editwindow.py", line 8, in ? from wx import stc File "/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/stc.py", line 10, in ? import _stc ImportError: No module named _stc False py> -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. - George Orwell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list