PYTHONPATH, opensuse10.2, gtk not working

[Silfheed]

Heyas

So I'm trying to do two things, install a little gnome taskbar applet
(timer-applet) that was written in python and experiment with writing
python gtk apps. I've installed (through yast) gtk, gtk2, gtk2-devel,
python-gtk, python-gtk-devl, python-gtk-doc but I still cant get
python to import gtk. I set PYTHONPATH = /usr/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/ and that got importing pygtk to work, but the little app I
downloaded wants to import gtk and I just cant figure out what I'm
supposed to set PYTHONPATH to in order to get `import gtk` to work.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or missing?

Thanks

 

[Steve Holden]

Heyas

So I'm trying to do two things, install a little gnome taskbar applet
(timer-applet) that was written in python and experiment with writing
python gtk apps. I've installed (through yast) gtk, gtk2, gtk2-devel,
python-gtk, python-gtk-devl, python-gtk-doc but I still cant get
python to import gtk. I set PYTHONPATH = /usr/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/ and that got importing pygtk to work, but the little app I
downloaded wants to import gtk and I just cant figure out what I'm
supposed to set PYTHONPATH to in order to get `import gtk` to work.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or missing?

Thanks

set PYTHONPATH to /usr/lib/python2.5/lib/site-packages:gtk-root-dir

By the way, do you really think that it's necessary to put site-packages
on the path? You might find it's already on there as Python starts up.

You can tell by printing sys.path from Python.

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[Silfheed]

set PYTHONPATH to /usr/lib/python2.5/lib/site-packages:gtk-root-dir

By the way, do you really think that it's necessary to put site-packages
on the path? You might find it's already on there as Python starts up.

You can tell by printing sys.path from Python.

Yes, it actually requires adding the site-packages to the PYTHONPATH
to get pygtk to work. So far I've managed to get gtk to give a
different error when I added the site-packages/gtk-2.0/ directory (the
only gtk-like thing in the site-packages) to the PYTHONPATH
`ImportError: gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol:
PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject`. I'll have to check the path when I get
home to see what it actually has within it and work from there.

Thanks.

 

[Silfheed]

Yes, it actually requires adding the site-packages to the PYTHONPATH
to get pygtk to work. So far I've managed to get gtk to give a
different error when I added the site-packages/gtk-2.0/ directory (the
only gtk-like thing in the site-packages) to the PYTHONPATH
`ImportError: gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol:
PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject`. I'll have to check the path when I get
home to see what it actually has within it and work from there.

Thanks.

So after checking sys.path and snooping around a bit more, it turns
out that I have two python site-package directories... one in /usr/lib
and one in /usr/local/lib.. One is automatically stuck into sys.path
(but allowed root access only) while the other is not.

I dunno why this is, but is there a way to get python to see both of
these automatically (without PYTHONPATH?) Not that this solves my
problem since after changing the permissions to world readable on the
sys.path listed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, it still wont let me
import gtk. This is all after installing everything with yast (which
says that I have gtk)..

 

[Silfheed]

So after checking sys.path and snooping around a bit more, it turns
out that I have two python site-package directories... one in /usr/lib
and one in /usr/local/lib.. One is automatically stuck into sys.path
(but allowed root access only) while the other is not.

I dunno why this is, but is there a way to get python to see both of
these automatically (without PYTHONPATH?) Not that this solves my
problem since after changing the permissions to world readable on the
sys.path listed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, it still wont let me
import gtk. This is all after installing everything with yast (which
says that I have gtk)..

Well.. I suppose a logical explanation would be two different installs
of python.. sorry for the noise.