potential quick fix before giving it thought:
did you:
git submodule update --init --recursive
You can easily try this by creating a new web2py installation in a
different folder so you don't mess up exising apps.
Also, is it broken with the downloaded version via zip?
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 9:02 AM, lyn2py <lyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 5:06:07 AM UTC+8, Mark Graves wrote:
>>
>> How did you install web2py? as a zip? via git?
>>
>
> *git clone*
>
>
>> Did you ever pip install gluon?
>>
>
> *nope*
>
>
>> Did you install web2py / python at different times?
>>
>
> *I've been using web2py for years using the system python, and I only
> installed python via homebrew recently for other purposes, and homebrew
> automatically replaced the system python as the default one to use (no
> complaints, since it's a higher version), which was why I discovered that
> it won't work with web2py. The only thing, I presume, is different, is the
> version of python. If you see the code in my first post, the respective
> versions for SYSTEM vs HOMEBREW are 2.7.10 and 2.7.13.*
>
>
>>
>> Can you try under each python version to do:
>>
>> import gluon.widget
>>
>
> *Oh good suggestion. I tried with both, and they both imported it fine. So
> it works in command-line python, but not with web2py (I dunno the right
> word for this... app / desktop app / guy)? I'll be happy to run any tests
> to figure out why... but do you think there might be something wrong with
> the version installed by homebrew??*
>
>
>
>>
>> On Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 11:29:08 PM UTC-6, lyn2py wrote:
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
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