The thread on the googleappengine site contains posts from a google employee who seems to be responsible for the issue. He doesn't explicitly say so, but I get the impression they *intend* to support 2.6 but, for whatever reason, haven't committed a fix for this particular problem on OS X.
On Jul 11, 2:53 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not understand why don't they check the Python version and report > a wrong version as an error? > > On 10 Lug, 23:32, MikeEllis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Solved. GAE doesn't like 2.6 on OS X. Changing to 2.5 via the > > Preferences dialog in Launcher fixed it (but I had to quit and restart > > the Launcher app for it to take effect). More on this issue > > athttp://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=985 > > if anyone cares. > > > Cheers, > > Mike > > > On Jul 10, 11:52 pm, MikeEllis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get started with GAE. Just downloaded GAE SDK 1.3.5 and > > > installed on OS X 10.6.4. > > > > Seems to be working for a trivial hello world example that doesn't use > > > web2py but I can't get any of my web2py apps to run, even a brand new > > > one created with the admin interface. Dies importing from gluon.tools > > > with the following error: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "/Users/mellis/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in > > > restricted > > > exec ccode in environment > > > File "/Users/mellis/web2py/applications/hellogae/models/db.py", line > > > 29, in <module> > > > from gluon.tools import * > > > File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/ > > > GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/ > > > google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 1286, in Decorate > > > return func(self, *args, **kwargs) > > > > ------- < SNIP > ----- > > > > File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/ > > > GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/ > > > google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 1789, in > > > LoadModuleRestricted > > > description) > > > File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ > > > python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module> > > > from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array > > > ImportError: No module named _ctypes > > > > Not sure what's going on. > > > * All apps run fine on localhost under rocket.py > > > * I can open python on the command line and execute the failing import > > > statement without error. > > > > What dumb thing have I overlooked? > > > > Thanks, > > > Mike
