Yes, I was running the web2py for OS X. I have switched to the web2py source version and it now works. Thanks for the help!
-- Don On Monday, July 16, 2012 9:57:15 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Are you running the web2py for OSX? That ships with its own python > interpreter and ignores any other python and module you may have installed. > I suggest you use web2py source since you already have python installed. > > On Sunday, 15 July 2012 14:26:11 UTC-5, DonH wrote: >> >> I have installed an external module (several .py files in a directory) >> that I want to import into my web2py app. I'm running on OS X and have >> installed Python 2.7. When I run Python from terminal, I can import the >> modules successfully, but when I attempt to import them in my web2py app, >> they cannot be found. The ticket indicates that the Python version is >> 2.5.1 running from the web2py app, so I'm not clear how I can import these >> modules. Copying them into the app/modules folder does not seem to work >> either. >> >> Can I either >> - change the web2py Python version to run my local python 2.7? >> - place the modules somewhere in the app directory structure to be found? >> - a different solution? >> >> Thanks for any help! >> -- Don >> > --

