Well, it looks like the darndest thing. First off, here's the path from within Python (and it has remained unchanged through all of the events below).
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ python26.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.6/lib/python2.6', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat-mac', '/System/ Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat- mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/System/Library/ Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/ System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages', '/System/Library/ Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC', '/ System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/ python/wx-2.8-mac-unicode'] I removed the Python 3.1 reference but that changed nothing. But I found that in my admin account (in which I had installed the Launcher in the first place) running appcfg.py did produce the desired result. Truly bizarre that in my regular user account, groctimespecification couldn't find the module groc, even though they're both in the same directory, and the first one was found no problem in the first place. Anyway, what I did was, without wiping anything out except / Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app, I took the SDK image in my regular user account, copied the Launcher to my desktop, opened it and made (revised?) symlinks, and suddenly everything works fine here. I have no idea why, because as far as I know the symlinks in /usr/local/ google_appengine/ are the same as before. One problem I can point out is that the README refers to a .pkg installer, but there is none. Was that the state of affairs previously? Anyway, this problem has taken up a lot of my time today so I have to move on, but if you guys have any commentary or want to try to reproduce it, I will be following up. Thank you so much for your prompt comments! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.