PyXML-0.5.4 and Site-Packages

Mike Kilgore mfkilgore at graycouncil.com
Sun Jun 4 16:26:03 EDT 2000


I am having the same problems on Windows... and must be missing something
very basic.  The setup.py install option does not appear to "install" to my
python site directory instead placing everything in build?  Any help would
be appreciated

Thanks


<thomas at cintra.no> wrote in message news:392fa459.764858 at news.c2i.net...
> Hi,
>
> I`ve tried to install PyXML-0.5.4 ( actually PyXML-0.5.3 and
> python-xml-0.5.1.rpm too with same result ) on my Mandrake 7.0
> Linux-box without luck.
>
> No erros during python setup.py build or setup.py install. The
> xml-folder has a __init__.py file with the __all__ : .... -line.
>
> When I try to use anything but the xml-folder, like
> "from xml.sax import *"
> I get a
> "no module named sax"-error.
>
> Then I tried to add a xml.pth in the site-packages-folder, looking
> like :
>
> xml
> xml/parsers
> xml/sax
> xml/unicode
> ...
>
> No change.
>
> I`ve tried to install this package before without luck. I just gave up
> in the end. But now it`s a vital part of a project, not some private
> messing around, so I need it to work.
>
> Is there a way around the site-package method of doing it?
>
> Any tips, hints?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Thomas
>





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