Installation problems DCOracle2 & W2000

[Talon]

In article <mailman.1025115815.15029.python-list at python.org>,
 brueckd at tbye.com wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Talon wrote:
> 
> > OK, here you go:
> > 
> > Path = C:\Python21\;  (I don't have a specific PYTHONPATH variable set. 
> > This is in the general PATH variable)
> > 
> > The error I get is
> > 
> > File "C:\Python21\myfiles\htsa_data_loader_v2.py", line 9, in ?
> >   import os,sys,re,string,DCOracle2
> > File "C:\Python21\DCOracle2\__init__.py", line 91, in ?
> >   import DA
> > File "C:\Python21\DCOracle2\DA.py", line 90, in ?
> >   from db import DB
> > File "C:\Python21\DCOracle2\db.py", line 89, in ?
> >   import DCOracle2, DateTime
> > ImportError: No module named DateTime
> > 
> > DateTime is located in C:\Program Files\ZopeDev\lib\python\DateTime
> 
> Aha! Here's what I think the problem is: the DCOracle2 bundle off the Zope 
> site comes all wrapped up in the Zope database adapter (ZOracleDA), so 
> your above script is actually trying to import the DA and not the 
> DCOracle2 package itself (I can see why this is confusing - both 
> directories are named DCOracle2 but one is a subdirectory of the other!).
> 
> So... if you look in c:\python21\DCOracle2 you should find a subdirectory 
> in there also called DCOracle2. This is the only one you should need for 
> doing standalone (none-Zope) work with Oracle. The easiest thing to do is 
> rename c:\python21\DCOracle2 to DCOracle2bak or something, and then move 
> its DCOracle2 subdirectory into c:\python21 and then try your script 
> again. 
> 
> Does this make sense? Please let me know if it doesn't or if it still 
> doesn't work after that.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> 
> 

Dave,
That was dead on.  I did as you said and now it works perfectly.  I 
thought I had done this originally, but I guess I had moved the outer 
folder instead.  Thank you very much.  Thanks to Fazal also for his 
input.  It is much appreciated.

Mark