Can only import select as root?

[Bruce Elrick]

At first blush I'd say that as user mccann you don't have read
permission on one of the  directories in the library path (PYTHONPATH)

"Lester I. McCann" wrote:
> 
> I'm new to Python, just installed Python 2.1 from the source RPMs, and
> tried to run a program.  It runs from root, but fails when run from a
> normal user account.  I reduced the problem to something easily
> demonstrated:
> 
>   [root]# python
>   Python 2.1 (#2, Apr 19 2001, 16:57:12)
>   [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
>   Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>   >>> import select
>   >>>
> 
> As you can see, it imports select just fine.  But as myself:
> 
>   [mccann]$ python
>   Python 2.1 (#2, Apr 19 2001, 16:57:12)
>   [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
>   Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>   >>> import select
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   ImportError: No module named select
>   >>>
> 
> PYTHONPATH is set the same in each environment.  My system is RedHat
> 6.2, and the source RPMs are those from
> http://www.python.org/2.1/rpms.html.
> 
> What am I doing incorrectly?  Why doesn't the normal installation work
> for a normal user account?  Thanks for any suggestions.
>