ImportError: No module named getopt

[prashant]

Thanks for the reply,
I am actually using Cygwin to run a python script.
I have python 2.5 installed. But when i ran the command mentioned by
you... I see that it is looking in the wrong directories... how can i
change these look up directories?


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "prashant" wrote:
>
> >I am running a python script which has the line
> >
> > import getopt, sys, os, re, string
> >
> > And i get the error
> >
> > ImportError: No module named getopt
> >
> > Could you please point out a possible solution for this?
>
> looks like a broken installation.  try running the script as
>
>     python -vv script.py
>
> and see where it looks for the getopt module.
>
> is the ImportError all you get, btw ?  it doesn't complain about site.py before
> that ?
> 
> </F>