[newbie] import fails first time, then works :-[

[laotseu]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> laotseu wrote:
> 
>>Well... I added '/usr/local/lib/lib-dynload' to my PYTHONPATH and
>>'import' does not complain anymore. Everything seems just fine now. But
>>that is puzzling me ! [being a python newbie,] I thought the
>>'/lib-dynload/' directorie, that is in the '/lib/python<version>/'
>>directories, was automagically searched for external modules. Was I wrong ?
> 
> 
> Searching the executable with "strings" and "grep", I find references
> to /usr and /lib/python2.0 (in my case) and both /lib/lib-dynload 
> and /lib-dynload.  When I run python and check sys.path I get
> 
> ['', '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib/python2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.0/plat-linux2', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.0/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages'] 
> 
> All with default values, under RedHat 7.1.  Not sure why you've
> got troubles... Linux is still Black Magic much of the time to me. :)
> 
> -Peter

I guess I'd better make a new clean install of python... Anyway version 
2.2.1 is out so !-)

Ok, thanks for your help.

laotseu
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