Hi. I updated cygwin a day ago and thus upgraded from python 2.5 to python 2.6. Now the eclipse integration (pydev plugin) does no longer work correctly, I drilled down the problem to the issue that ctypes cannot be imported correctly. (This worked with python 2.5.)
(Starting up a cygwin-bash) $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 12 2010, 17:07:01) [GCC 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import ctypes
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module> from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array ImportError: No such file or directory
import _ctypes
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No such file or directory
import somethingunknown
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named somethingunknown As you can see, _ctypes is well known to python, because the error is "No such file or directory". Otherwise (see last command) the error message would be "No module named _ctypes". A look in the directory for DLLs gives the following: $ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/ | grep cty -rwxr-xr-x 1 dran01 root 91150 2010-06-12 23:11 _ctypes.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 dran01 root 14862 2010-06-12 23:11 _ctypes_test.dll Other DLLs from this directory import correctly, e.g. _ctypes_test : $ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 12 2010, 17:07:01) [GCC 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import _ctypes_test
So the problem is "clearly" a broken _ctypes.dll Can I do something specific to track down the problem further? Kind regards, Kay Drangmeister P.S. For the interested: The problem with Eclipse-Plugin pydev is: No output was in the standard output when trying to create the interpreter info. The error output contains:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Java\eclipse35SR1\plugins\org.python.pydev_1.5.7.2010050621\PySrc\interpreterInfo.py", line 33, in <module> import ctypes File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module> from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array ImportError: No such file or directory << -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple