How to add a library path to pythonpath ?

Wed Mar 17 04:58:47 EDT 2010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Angel [mailto:davea at ieee.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:24 PM
> To: Barak, Ron
> Cc: Pablo Recio Quijano; python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: How to add a library path to pythonpath ?
>
> Barak, Ron wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave Angel [mailto:davea at ieee.org]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:04 PM
> >> To: Barak, Ron
> >> Cc: Pablo Recio Quijano; python-list at python.org
> >> Subject: RE: How to add a library path to pythonpath ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Barak, Ron wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for the suggestion Pable.
> >>>
> >>> However, I really need the $PYTHONPATH to include this
> >>>
> >> additional library, so all Python scripts could use it.
> >>
> >>> In Windows I have defined PYTHONPATH as
> >>> c:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMInspector\lib\, and
> also in the
> >>> Windows registry I have
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\version\PythonPath\ as
> >>
> >>
> C:\Python26\Lib;C:\Python26\DLLs;C:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMI
> >> n
> >>
> >>> spector\lib\;C:\Python26\Lib\lib-tk;
> >>>
> >>> However, even with all the above, the SVMInspecor modules
> >>>
> >> are not found.
> >>
> >>>
> >> See my response at the end.  Top-posting makes for a very
> confusing
> >> thread.
> >>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> 2010/3/16 Barak, Ron <Ron.Barak at lsi.com<mailto:Ron.Barak at lsi.com>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to add a library path to my pythonpath, but
> >>>
> >> seems it is not
> >>
> >>> accepted -
> >>>
> >>> On Windows DOS window:
> >>>
> >>> C:\>echo %PYTHONPATH%
> >>> c:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMInspector\lib\
> >>>
> >>> C:\>python -c "import sys ; print sys.path"
> >>> ['', 'c:\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\SVMInspector\\lib',
> >>> 'C:\\WINDOWS\\syst em32\\python26.zip', 'C:\\Python26\\DLLs',
> >>> 'C:\\Python26\\lib', 'C:\\Python26\\l ib\\plat-win',
> >>> 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python26', 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\
> >>> site-packages',
> >>> 'C:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
> >>>
> >>> C:\>
> >>>
> >>> On Windows cygwin:
> >>>
> >>> $ echo $PYTHONPATH
> >>> .:/cygdrive/c/views/cc_view/TS_svm_ts_tool/SVMInspector/lib/
> >>>
> >>> $ python -c "import sys ; print sys.path"
> >>> ['',
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> '.:\\cygdrive\\c\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\SVMInspector\\lib',
> >>
> >>> 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python26.zip', 'c:\\Python26\\DLLs',
> >>> 'c:\\Python26\\lib', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win',
> >>> 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'c:\\Python26',
> >>> 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages',
> >>> 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
> >>>
> >>> $
> >>>
> >>> What am I doing wrong ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Ron.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> In your original message, what you displayed worked exactly as
> >> expected.  As you didn't say what made you think something
> was wrong,
> >> I ignored the message.
> >>
> >> Now, you say that some modules are not found.  So how about giving
> >> some more specifics so someone can actually debug the
> problem.  Pick
> >> a particular module, tell us the complete path to that module, and
> >> show us both the sys.path strings (which look correct for
> the Windows
> >> case, and of course bogus for the cygwin case), as well as the
> >> offending import statement and its traceback.
> >>
> >> DaveA
> >>
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > My Python is the Windows Python (I need this for wxPython):
> >
> > $ ls -ls `which python`
> > 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rbarak mkgroup-l-d 31 Mar  4 14:02
> /usr/bin/python ->
> > /cygdrive/c/Python26/python.exe
> >
> > Here's a demo script:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> >
> > import sys
> > print "\n",sys.path,"\n"
> >
> > from ErrorManager.ErrorManager import ErrorManager
> >
> > And it's run produces:
> >
> > $ python -u  tmp.py
> >
> > ['c:\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\svm_ts_tool',
> >
> '.:\\cygdrive\\c\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\SVMInspector\\lib',
> > 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python26.zip', 'c:\\Python26\\DLLs',
> > 'c:\\Python26\\lib', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win',
> > 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'c:\\Python26',
> > 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages',
> > 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "tmp.py", line 6, in <module>
> >     from ErrorManager.ErrorManager import ErrorManager
> > ImportError: No module named ErrorManager.ErrorManager
> >
> > $ ls -ls
> >
> /cygdrive/c/views/cc_view/TS_svm_ts_tool/SVMInspector/lib/ErrorManager
> > /ErrorManager.py
> > 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbarak ???????? 1843 Sep 21 19:16
> >
> /cygdrive/c/views/cc_view/TS_svm_ts_tool/SVMInspector/lib/ErrorManager
> > /ErrorManager.py
> >
> > $ grep ErrorManager
> > /cygdrive/c/views/cc_view/TS_svm_ts_tool/SVMInspector/lib/
> > ErrorManager/ErrorManager.py
> > class ErrorManager:
> >
> > $ echo $PYTHONPATH
> > .:/cygdrive/c/views/cc_view/TS_svm_ts_tool/SVMInspector/lib/
> >
> > Please let me know if the above is enough, or you'd like to
> see the results from a Windows' DOS window.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron.
> >
> >
> Well, I pointed out that your cygwin path is bogus, so of
> course it won't work.  One of those entries is
>
>
> '.:\\cygdrive\\c\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\SVMInspector\\lib'
>
> I use Linux, and I use Windows.  But cygwin's glomming
> together has never made sense;  some things are Unix-like,
> and others are Windows-like.  So anything you do in that
> environment is beyond me.
>
> If I had to guess, though I'd say you wanted to drop those
> first two characters from your PYTHONPATH.  If you really
> wanted two directories there, you should be separating them
> with semicolon (Windows rules), rather than colon (Linux
> rules).  First thing I'd do to test my theories is to print
> something like:
>      print sys.path[1]
>      print os.listdir(sys.path[1])
> Does Python even see the cygwin view of the world ?
>
> You also don't show the location of the module you're trying
> to import.
> I'm guessing that it's at
> ...SVMInspector/lib/ErrorManager/ErrorManager.py
> Do you have a file
> ...SVMInspector/lib/ErrorManager/__init__.py     ?
>
> I would seriously recommend against naming your package, your
> module, and your class all the same thing.  Makes debugging
> very hard.  At least make them have different case combinations.
>
> DaveA
>
>

Hi Dave,
With the suggestions you made above, I managed to solve the problems I reported, and now my paths work as expected.
Thanks a lot,
Ron.

$ cat tmp.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import os
print "sys.path:",sys.path
print "sys.path[1]:",sys.path[1]
print "os.listdir(sys.path[1]):",os.listdir(sys.path[1])

from ErrorManager.ErrorManager import ErrorManager

$ python -u tmp.py
sys.path: ['c:\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\svm_ts_tool', 'c:\\views\\cc_view\\TS_svm_ts_tool\\SVMInspector\\lib', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python26.zip', 'c:\\Python26\\DLLs', 'c:\\Python26\\lib', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\plat-win', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\lib-tk', 'c:\\Python26', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages', 'c:\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
sys.path[1]: c:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMInspector\lib
os.listdir(sys.path[1]): ['ConnectivityManager', 'ErrorManager', 'Utility']

$ echo $PYTHONPATH
c:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMInspector\lib\

$ echo  $PYTHON_PATH
c:\views\cc_view\TS_svm_ts_tool\SVMInspector\lib\
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