[PythonCAD] newbie install can't find Generic.globals

[Art Haas]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:17:53PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Just saw the release announcement on c.l.p, thought I would have a look 
> at pythoncad.  I followed the installation instructions on the web 
> page.  If I run gtkpycad.py from the source directory, it seems to work 
> OK.  If I run it from its installed location in /usr/local/bin, I get 
> this error:
> 
> budr at twocups:~$ which gtkpycad.py
> /usr/local/bin/gtkpycad.py
> budr at twocups:~$ gtkpycad.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/gtkpycad.py", line 31, in ?
>     import Generic.globals
> ImportError: No module named Generic.globals
> 
> I know just enough about python to whet my appetite.  What have I 
> overlooked?
> 

It sounds like Python can't find the code in it's built-in search path.
What do you see when you do the following ...

$ python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path

You should see a list of directories. These are the directories that
Python will search when a bit of code uses an 'import' statement.
On my machine I get the following ...

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0']

Notice that '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD' is in the list.
That directory is where the 'install.py' script put the files when I run
the install command 'python setup.py install'.

Art
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