I'm having a weird problem with the 'External Tools' plugin for gedit, that seems to get weirder the more I dig into it. When I start gedit by clicking a launcher (from the Ubuntu menu, panel or desktop) everything is dandy and the 'External Tools' plugin works as expected. When gedit is launched from the terminal, the 'External Tools' plugin is greyed out in the plugin list and I get this traceback on stderr:
$ gedit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py", line 24, in <module> from manager import Manager File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/manager.py", line 27, in <module> import hashlib File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 136, in <module> md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor import _md5 ImportError: No module named _md5 ** (gedit:8714): WARNING **: Error loading plugin 'External Tools' The same thing happens if I try to activate the plugin from a gedit launched from the terminal (if it's already been deactivated from a gedit launched from the menu). My analysis is that gedit tries to import the externaltools package, which imports hashlib, which tries to import _hashlib but fails and falls back to _md5 which also fails, which apparently /should not happen/, or so google tells me. One of _hashlib and _md5 should always exist. However, importing _hashlib in a python interpreter works just fine, i.e: $ python -c 'import _hashlib' returns nothing. What also puzzles me is that I don't seem to have _hashlib* anywhere on my system (am I supposed to?) and getting the __file__ attribute off the module doesn't work, and help(_hashlib) says FILE is (built-in). >>> import _hashlib >>> _hashlib.__file__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__' Google drops vague hints that there may be a a virtualenv that one might have to rebuild, but in that case I have no idea where to begin. I've tried reinstalling the ubuntu packages gedit, gedit-common and gedit-plugins, but to no avail. And the machine runs a fully updated ubuntu karmic koala (10.4) that has survived numerous dist-upgrades, if that's of any use to anybody. I'd appreciate any input on this, even if it's just new bushes to whack for scaring the problem out into the light. Cheers! /Joel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list