Inline::Python, pyperl, etc.

[Eli Stevens (WG.c)]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Eli Stevens (WG.c) enlightened us with:
> 
>>I've bumped into some snags with pyperl (can't import perl2.so?  But 
>>it's right there in site-packages/ !), and I'm wondering if it's bitrot 
>>or a config error on my end.
> 
> 
> If the .so file is as old as you described, it's probably linked to an
> old version of python. Try recompiling it.

The perl2.so is not old though; it was built as part of the pyperl 
install I just did.  Since the file ended up at (without needing any 
prompting from me):

     /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages

I'm fairly confident that it's linked against python 2.4.  But still:

$$$ ll /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
total 1968
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        4096 Aug 24 00:36 .
drwxr-sr-x   19 root     staff       12288 Aug 20 00:42 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff         119 Aug 20 00:42 README
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        1672 Mar  6  2001 dbi.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        2248 Aug 24 00:36 dbi.pyc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        8289 Mar  6  2001 dbi2.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff       10292 Aug 24 00:36 dbi2.pyc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff       40249 Aug 24 00:36 perl.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff     1895597 Aug 24 00:36 perl2.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        3566 Mar  6  2001 perlmod.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        4236 Aug 24 00:36 perlmod.pyc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        1310 Mar  6  2001 perlpickle.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        1358 Aug 24 00:36 perlpickle.pyc

$$$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Aug 20 2005, 00:41:20)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import perl
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: perl2.so not found
 >>> import sys
 >>> for line in sys.path: print line
...

/home/elis/edit/external/pyperl-1.0.1
/usr/local/lib/python24.zip
/usr/local/lib/python2.4
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
 >>>

But again, I'm not so much interested in fixing this specific problem; 
I'm wanting to know if anyone is actually using Inline::Python or PyPerl 
in any real sense.  If they are dead projects that will have to factor 
into our decision to use them or something else.

Thanks for the input,
Eli