I would guess that the PATH, PYTHONPATH, pth, and site-packages
issues are close to the number one
FAQ for mac python newbies (and not really fully understood by many
oldies like me)
I would be happy to take a shot at writing up some documentation
probably should go under
setting up your user environment.
I remember that there are some obscure details associated with the
pythonpath for cgi scripts in apache
The python library ref for cgi states (or stated some time ago).
"In particular, don't count on ...the Python module search path
(PYTHONPATH) to be set to anything interesting.
One way to fix it is to use the setEnv directive in apache
<IfModule mod_env.c>
SetEnv PYTHONPATH "/Users/smithsm/Development/python:/Users/
smithsm/Development/python/ht:/sw/lib/python2.2:/sw/lib/python2.2/
plat-darwin:/sw/lib/python2.2/lib-tk:/sw/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload:/
sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages:/sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages/
Numeric:/sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL"
</IfModule>
#quotes optional
The final path that python sees as sys.path in the cgi script is
composed of a list in order of
the directory wherein resides the cgi script
the apache setenv PYTHONPATH
the default sys.path
Another suggestion was to put a .pth file in the cgi-bin directory
holding the python cgi script. I never tested that.
Any changes to this behavior in 2.4.2 or with mod_python?
On 09 Mar, 2006, at 12:31, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 9-mrt-2006, at 18:38, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Samuel M. Smith wrote:
>>>> So does the new Python Installer create ~/Library/Python/2.4/site-
>>>> packages? Or must one create it manually?
>>>
>>> One must create it manually.
>>
>> I think it should create it, it will make things a tiny bit easier
>> for
>> some folks, and what's the harm?
>
> Nothing will automaticly install in ~/Library/Python/2.4/site-
> packages,
> which means automaticly creating the directory is not very useful. I'm
> sure I wouldn't notice the directory if it were created, and I'm sure
> I wouldn't be the only one.
>
> This doesn't mean we shouldn't improve the documentation :-).
>
> Ronald
>>
>> -CHB
>>
>>
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