I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but it only happens with web2py (for now).
Due to a need to use pip, I used homebrew to install python. Sidenote: Homebrew used to require additional configuration to work as "the python" on the system, but now it does everything automatically. So when I type $ which python ...I get the one that homebrew installed. Onward... I tried $ python web2py.py ...which is the homebrew installed one, and ran into this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/web2py/web2py.py", line 21, in <module> import gluon.widget File "/Users/web2py/gluon/__init__.py", line 31, in <module> "You can also download a complete copy from http://www.web2py.com." RuntimeError: web2py depends on pydal, which apparently you have not installed. Probably you cloned the repository using git without '--recursive' To fix this, please run (from inside your web2py folder): git submodule update --init --recursive You can also download a complete copy from http://www.web2py.com. But when I run this command, which uses the system's python, it works! $ /usr/bin/python web2py.py I could always add "/usr/bin/" as a habit when starting web2py, but why doesn't homebrew's installed python work? Are they not the same? When I run python in command line, HOMEBREW: $ python Python 2.7.13 (default, Dec 17 2016, 23:03:43) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> exit() ...and, SYSTEM: $ /usr/bin/python Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> exit() Thank you for reading! -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.