Newbie : Installing Python locally in acct on shared server

[brian donovan]

Hi Chris,

	Yes, the below should work, but it doesn't. :(  I just did the steps as 
outlined below and I'm getting the same bizarre result as previously.  A 
helloworld script composed of a few print statements and ointed at my 
install executes without a hitch, but importing a module causes a "500 
Internal Server Error".  :/

	I tested with a number of extremely simple scripts using different 
modules.  An example :


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#!/home/luser/bin/python

import sys

print "path has", len(sys.path), "members"
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another

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#!/home/luser/bin/python

import base64

MESSAGE = "life of brian"
data = base64.encodestring(MESSAGE)

original_data = base64.decodestring(data)

print "original : ", repr(MESSAGE)
print "encoded data : ", repr(data)
print "decoded data : ", repr(original_data)
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	Any ideas?  The installation went off seemingly without a hitch.  and 
everything seems to physically be "there", but scripts that import a 
module die.

-brian

Chris Gonnerman wrote:

> HMMMM...
> 
> First, I'd recommend 
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=/home/luser
>     make
>     make test
>     make install
> 
> Make sure any script you write has
> 
>     #!/home/luser/bin/python
> 
> at the top.
> 
> This really should work...