Problem with findinf wx modules solved

[siggi]

I included the "...\wxDemos" path in PYTHONPATH. Everthing fine now!

"siggi" <smusnmrNOSPAM at yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:eo5hpp$2tmo$1 at zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
> "Tim Roberts"  wrote:
>>>
>>>when I do >>>sys.path in IDLE (winXP), i get a horrendously long list of
>>>paths, paths I may have used during a lot of trials and errors. How can I
>>>clean up sys.path? I mean, trim it of unnecessary paths?
>>
>> What do mean by "used during a lot of trials and errors"?  sys.path is
>> recreated from scratch every time Python starts.  It doesn't accumulate
>> over time, other than from new packages that you install.
>> -- 
>> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
> Sorry Tim, my statement was not correct, due to my inexperience with 
> Python.
> And sorry, too, for my somewhat lengthy reply:
> After having had inspected my current sys.path...
>
> ['C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\My Python files',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\Lib\\idlelib',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\python25.zip',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\DLLs',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25', 'C:\\Documents
> and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My
> Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'C:\\Documents and
> Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My
> Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Documents and
> Settings\\User\\My Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin',
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My
> Documents\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-ansi']
>
> or in plain DOS:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Python files
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\Lib\idlelib
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\python25.zip
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\DLLs
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\lib
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\lib\plat-win
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\lib\lib-tk
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My 
> Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My
> Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32\lib
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My
> Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin
> C:\Documents and Settings\User\My
> Documents\Python25\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-ansi
>
> ...it just looked horrible to me at first sight!
>
> If I interpret your explanation correctly, all these paths are necessary,
> and not relics of previous installations and deinstallations.
>
> What puzzles me, though, is, that e.g., when I run the wxPython 
> application
> "AnalogClock.py" with IDLE or in the command line , this works only in the
> directory "...\My Python files\wxDemos\" . This directory contains all 
> files
> and folders from the original "\wx-2.8-msw-ansi\demos\").
>
> When I copy AnalogClock.py to ...\My Python Files\  , nothing happens 
> after
> running it with IDLE or in the command line.
> Appending 'C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Python
> files\wxDemos ' to the sys.path does not help either.
>
> Thinking that I am clever, I  changed my sys.path with sclicing and
> concatenation such that my sys.path starts with
>
> 'C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Python files', 
> 'C:\Documents
> and Settings\User\My Documents\My Python files\wxDemos'. Now \wxDemos\ is
> being searched very early.
>
> ... no way! After running AnalogClock.py again, this error message 
> appears:
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Python
> files\wxAnalogClock.py", line 14, in <module>
>    import wx
> ImportError: No module named wx.
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Very strange! Because all this wx stuff IS IN the directory 'C:\Documents
> and Settings\User\My Documents\My Python files\wxDemos'. And 
> AnalogClock.py
> does work when residing in that directory.
>
> Can you help me again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> siggi
>
> P.S. On another PC where the python program is in c:\programs\python25\, 
> same as above!
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