python parser overridden by pymol

[Robert Kern]

Jeremiah wrote:

> However, a problem arises once $PYTHONPATH includes the pymol
> directory. To use the pymol api, I add the following to ~/.bashrc:
> 
>    PYMOL_PATH=/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/pymol
>    export PYMOL_PATH
>    PYTHONPATH=$PYMOL_PATH
>    export PYTHONPATH

Don't change your PYTHONPATH like that. You want to put 
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5 onto your PYTHONPATH and import PyMOL's stuff from 
the pymol package. I.e., instead of

   import api

Do

   from pymol import api

pymol is a package for precisely this reason.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco