[Mailman-Users] Import email.message fails for Mailman 2.1.14 onAIX 5.3

[Steve Pogue]

Thanks Mark,
That seemed to do the trick.  Any idea why configure/make didn't clean up?
I'm wondering if there may be other fixups or issues awaiting me.
Steve

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Steve Pogue wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to get Mailman 2.1.14 running on AIX 5.3 using Python 2.6.2.
>  The
> >first part of the installation works fine but I'm getting the following
> >traceback on the update task.  I've also tried running list_lists which
> had
> >the same effect.  I am able to go into interactive mode with Python and
> >invoke the imports without any problems.  Any idea what the issue is here?
> >TIA,
> >Steve
> >
> ># make update
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "bin/update", line 51, in <module>
> >    from Mailman import MailList
> >  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module>
> >    from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver
> >  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in
> ><module>
> >    from Archiver import *
> >  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in
> ><module>
> >    from Mailman import Mailbox
> >  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module>
> >    import mailbox
> >  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module>
> >    import email.message
> >ImportError: No module named message
>
>
> Almost certainly the problem is that you have an older email package in
> /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/. The standard configure/make
> process in 2.1.14 should have removed that so that mailman uses the
> email package in /opt/freeware/lib/python2.6/email.
>
> If you remove the /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/ directory, that
> will probably fix the issue.
>
> Also, if you can successfully do the following in an interactive Python
> session:
>
> unicode('OK', 'iso-2022-jp')
> unicode('OK', 'euc-kr')
>
> you can remove any japanese and korean codecs packages from
> /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
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