[Pythonmac-SIG] pynomo

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, March 14, 2008, at 04:46PM, "Alan Curtis" <alan.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
>I would like to play with the pynomo package.
>
>I have installed the prerequisites using macports and the pynomo  
>package using python setup.py install but get an error when I try to  
>run the examples.
>
>$ python example_1.py
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "example_1.py", line 16, in <module>
>     from pynomo import *
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pynomo/nomograph.py", line  
>16, in <module>
>     from nomo_axis import *
>   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pynomo/nomo_axis.py", line  
>20, in <module>
>     from pyx import *
>ImportError: No module named pyx
>
>I suspect that this is caused by some path related mismatch between  
>the Leopard and macports pythons but don't know enough about python to  
>fix it.
>
>Is there a simple fix?

You're using the wrong python to install and use nomo. Either use /opt/local/bin/python instead of just python, or add the macports directory to the start of your shell's search path, like so: PATH="/opt/local/bin:${PATH}"

Ronald