[Tutor] python by cgi

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 10:01, nik wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to access my firebird database using python and cgi. I've 
> installed the latest apache web server (on linux), and using a simple 
> script like;
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> def main():
>     print "Content-type: text/html"
>     print
>     print "<TITLE> Hello, World!</TITLE>"
> 
> if (__name__ == "__main__"):
>     main()
> 
> is working just fine.
> 
> However, if I add an import kinterbasdb at the start, I get an import error.
> 
> Using the command line interpreter I don't have a problem though.
> 
> I'm a bit confused by the sys.path a bit, it seems to vary depending on 
> how I start python;
> 
> in command line iterpreter, it's;
> '', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric', 
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0'

Here Python is installed in /usr/lib

> 
> by cgi it's;
> '/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin', '/usr/local/lib/python23.zip', 
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.3', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', 
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', 
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', 
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages'
> 

Here Python is installed in /usr/local/lib

You have two installed versions of Python.  I would assume that
kinterbasdb is in /usr/lib AND not in /usr/local/lib.

Quick fix is to install kinterbasdb into the other python.  Better is to
get down to a single Python2.3 - presumably remove the /usr/local/lib
version, but that depends on the nature of your linux setup.


> however, the difference doesn't seem to imply why kinterbasdb can't be 
> imported.
> 
> I tried doing
> import sys
> sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/kinterbasdb')
> 
> in the script, but it didn't help.
> 
> 
> Any ideas? Is it a permissions thing perhaps?
> 
> nik
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Lloyd Kvam
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