On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 1:39:20 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Ramesh wrote: > > > I am new to python. > > > > I downloaded python 2.7.8 tarball, successfully cross compiled it, to make > > sure that the subsystems are correctly built, I tried running the python > > test scripts on the MIPS based target board. I hit the below error while I > > do so, > [...] > > I tried setting PATH & PYTHONPATH, but it doesn't seem to fix the issue. > > Tried setting them to what? > > > > Can someone please advice on what possibly is causing this problem / how > > to fix this? > > Try running these commands from the operating system's shell, and report on > the output: > > > ls -ld /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/ > > ls -l /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/*coll* > > python -c "import collections; print collections.__file__" > > > > That will help diagnose the problem. > > > > -- > Steven
For the above commands, here is the output # ls -ld /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 681 Jan 10 2015 /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/ # ls -l /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/*coll* ls: /opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/*coll*: No such file or directory # /opt/Python-2.7.8/bin/python2.7 -c "import collections; print collections.__fi le__" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/opt/Python-2.7.8/lib/python2.7/collections.py", line 8, in <module> from _collections import deque, defaultdict ImportError: No module named _collections # -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list