problem running program

[John Machin]

Timothy Reaves <treaves at silverfields.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.993064592.17922.python-list at python.org>...
> Hello. I have Python 2.1 installed. I can write python scripts and they 
> run. However, when I try to run glimmer or gnucash, I get errors. For 
> example, glimmer gives my the following.
> 
> 	Do I haev python setup incorrectly?
> 
> [treaves at double treaves]$ export PTYHONHOME=/usr/lib/python2.1/

You have tarnsposition errors in 'haev' and 'PTYHONHOME'.
Assuming that what you posted was straight from the output, the latter
may well be the cause of the problem.

My understanding is that in any case PYTHONHOME is *optional* -- on
both *x and Windows, Python expects to find all those goodies in the
'lib' sub-directory of the directory where the executable program
finds itself; PYTHONHOME would only be necessary if you were (say)
testing a variant installation.

> [treaves at double treaves]$ glimmer
> Loading font from preferences.
> Loading font from preferences.
> Loading font from preferences.
> Loading font from preferences.
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback

My understanding is that the exceptions module is built-in in 2.1, and
thus this shouldn't happen.

If spelling PYTHONHOME correctly doesn't solve your problem, you need
to dig into glimmer & gnucash --- presuming they are shell scripts ---
and maybe run python with -v as suggested by the error messages.

Are you *sure* that glimmer & friends are not running an old python?

> Warning! Falling back to string-based exceptions
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Fatal Python error: could not import _gtk
> Aborted (core dumped)
> [treaves at double treaves]$