[clug] finding and settting the python include path

[Gough, Chris]

> From: Michael James (Wednesday, 11 February 2004 5:08 pm) wrote:
> 
> Any python hackers care to give a brief tute on includes?
> 
> I have a python application that is not finding
>  an included file despite the fact that it's there,
>  installed from a Suse 9.0 RPM.
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/gconf.so
> 

are you unsuccessfully trying to 'import gnome'? site-packages is usually in
PYTHONPATH, so you should be able to 'import gtk-2.0' no problems (except I
don't know how the full stop in the package name is going to affect things).

your gtk-2.0 seems to be a 'package', a module of modules. You should be
able to 'from gtk-2.0 import gnome' or 'import gtk-2.0.gnome' without
touching your path. Having said that, the Debian package put
site-packages/gtk-2.0/ on my path, so it's not a strange thing to do either.

> In fact I can bodge the app (meld) into working
>  by putting a symlink in the current directory.
> 
> How do I discover python's include path
>  and where does it get set?
> 
> Is there a way of getting python to have a look around
>  and update it's path?
> 
> Please pardon my complete ignorance of this

Yeah, all right.

> michaelj
> 
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Chris Gough
Department of Software Development
Canberra Institute of Technology
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