[Tutor] Re: Import Site Failed Resolution

[Kent Johnson]

Ah. Do you have a file called os.py or os.pyc in your python files? Taking another look at your 
import trace, I see that site.pyc is found at c:\python24\lib\site.pyc but os.pyc is found in the 
current directory.

Kent

jhomme wrote:
> Hi Kent,
> my os.py looks like what you posted below. I re-installed after deleting the registry key and the
> 
python24 folder. I also discovered that if I type python while pointing right at the python24
directory rather than the directory my python files are in, I don't get the error.
> 
> Weird eh?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>  -----Original message-----
> From: Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:42:09 -0500
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Re: Import Site Failed Resolution
> 
> 
>>OK, getting closer. import site is failing because site imports os and that import is failing. The 
>>error message points to a line that should be part of the docstring at the beginning of os.py...strange.
>>
>>Here are the first 22 lines from my os.py - the entire docstring. If your Python2.4\Lib\os.py 
>>doesn't look like this then you could try pasting in these lines instead, or maybe reinstalling to 
>>make sure nothing else is corrupted...
>>
>>**** Next line is start of os.py ****
>>r"""OS routines for Mac, DOS, NT, or Posix depending on what system we're on.
>>
>>This exports:
>>   - all functions from posix, nt, os2, mac, or ce, e.g. unlink, stat, etc.
>>   - os.path is one of the modules posixpath, ntpath, or macpath
>>   - os.name is 'posix', 'nt', 'os2', 'mac', 'ce' or 'riscos'
>>   - os.curdir is a string representing the current directory ('.' or ':')
>>   - os.pardir is a string representing the parent directory ('..' or '::')
>>   - os.sep is the (or a most common) pathname separator ('/' or ':' or '\\')
>>   - os.extsep is the extension separator ('.' or '/')
>>   - os.altsep is the alternate pathname separator (None or '/')
>>   - os.pathsep is the component separator used in $PATH etc
>>   - os.linesep is the line separator in text files ('\r' or '\n' or '\r\n')
>>   - os.defpath is the default search path for executables
>>   - os.devnull is the file path of the null device ('/dev/null', etc.)
>>
>>Programs that import and use 'os' stand a better chance of being
>>portable between different platforms.  Of course, they must then
>>only use functions that are defined by all platforms (e.g., unlink
>>and opendir), and leave all pathname manipulation to os.path
>>(e.g., split and join).
>>"""
>>**** End of snippet from os.py ****
>>
>>Kent
>>
>>
>>
>>jhomme wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>Here is all the information I could get from the display of the output from this error. How do I figure out what is going on and fix the problem? This is on a Windows 2000 machine.
>>>
>>>graphic 910  C:\WINNT\system32\command.com
>>>C:\PYTHON>python -v
>>># installing zipimport hook
>>>import zipimport # builtin
>>># installed zipimport hook
>>># c:\python24\lib\site.pyc matches c:\python24\lib\site.py
>>>import site # precompiled from c:\python24\lib\site.pyc
>>>import os # precompiled from os.pyc
>>>'import site' failed; traceback:
>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>File "c:\python24\lib\site.py", line 61, in ?
>>>import os
>>>File "c:\python24\lib\os.py", line 4, in ?
>>>- all functions from posix, nt, os2, mac, or ce, e.g. unlink, stat, etc.
>>>AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'path'
>>># c:\python24\lib\warnings.pyc matches c:\python24\lib\warnings.py
>>>import warnings # precompiled from c:\python24\lib\warnings.pyc
>>># c:\python24\lib\types.pyc matches c:\python24\lib\types.py
>>>import types # precompiled from c:\python24\lib\types.pyc
>>># c:\python24\lib\linecache.pyc matches c:\python24\lib\linecache.py
>>>import linecache # precompiled from c:\python24\lib\linecache.pyc
>>>import os # precompiled from os.pyc
>>>Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
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