[Pythonmac-SIG] Import problem (MacPython-2.3b2 OSX)

[Brian Lenihan]

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Kaweh Kazemi wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Installed MacPython-2.3b2 (OS X 10.2.6) and have following problem:  
> running the attached test.py program in a shell produces attached  
> output (test_shell_output.txt).
>
> When I start the same script as a CGI script, I get a different output  
> (test_cgi_output.txt) - the only difference is that the CGI script is  
> not able to import elementtree (which I installed manually using "sudo  
> python setup.py install").
>
> Also the CGI script can not import site, giving following traceback  
> during site import (used -v):
>
> 'import site' failed; traceback:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File  
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
> site.py", line 180, in ?
>     home = os.environ['HOME']
>   File  
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
> UserDict.py", line 19, in __getitem__
>     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
> KeyError: 'HOME'
>
change line 180 in site.py to:

home = os.environ.get('HOME')

It's been fixed since the 2.3b2 release