Hi Santiago, Thanks for the report. It looks like readline is not being included in the packaging. I looked briefly in the ParaView superbuild repository to find out why, but did not see the reason immediately. I have filed an issue for this:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/issues/70 Best regards, Cory On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Santiago Serebrinsky < [email protected]> wrote: > I am under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. > > I have currently two versions of Paraview: > 1. Paraview 5.0.1, installed with apt-get. It is using Python 2.7.12. > 2. ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit, simply expanded. It uses > Python 2.7.11. > > When I use version 2 of pvpython (~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5- > OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/pvpython) I get the error > > import readline > ImportError: No module named readline > > from my ~/.pythonrc. > > In version 1 of pvpython, readline resides in > /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload > >>> readline.__file__ > '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/readline.x86_64-linux-gnu.so' > . > In version 2 readline is not present anywhere in ~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5- > OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/ > > Why is this? > Can it be fixed? > > PS: directory > ~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload > (where I expected to find readline given version 1) is empty. > Many of the modules which in version 1 reside in > /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload, > are present in lib/python2.7, not in lib/python2.7/lib-dynload, in version2: > > >>> import parser > >>> parser.__file__ > '/home/santiago/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux- > 64bit/lib/python2.7/parser.so' > > But readline is an exception here. > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > -- Cory Quammen Staff R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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