On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ray Jones <crawlz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you have multiple python installations on your machine? Do you run >> easy_install in one and ipython in another? > > Perhaps. But the module is not accessible from the 'python' shell, from > 'idle', or from iPython. > > As I peruse Synaptic I find I have active installations of Ubuntu's > basic python, python2.7, and python2.7-minimal. But are these separate > installations? Virtually every system package thinks it's dependent on > each one of these python packages. > > Suggestions?
Those are not separate installations. The python package depends on python2.7 and python-minimal. The latter depends on python2.7-minimal. You should be able to install pytz from the Ubuntu repository. Search for the package python-tz. If you install from the repository, be sure to manually delete the old installation in the local dist-packages directory. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=python-tz That said, in Debian Wheezy, pytz installs and runs fine from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. You could hack a temporary fix with a .pth file or using the PYTHONPATH environment variable, but it's better to figure out the problem. To help debug your problem, first check which Python installation you're running. Run "ls -Hl `which python`". Is it /usr/bin/python? Next check whether the latter path is actually in sys.path. In Debian, on which Ubuntu is based, it gets added in /usr/lib/python2.7/site.py: elif os.sep == '/': sitepackages.append(os.path.join(prefix, "local/lib", "python" + sys.version[:3], "dist-packages")) sitepackages.append(os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "python" + sys.version[:3], "dist-packages")) Next check /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/easy_install.pth. Does it have a line with "./pytz-2012d-py2.7.egg" to include the latter directory on the path (ignore the wonky code to modify the path's insertion point) ? Check inside that directory for a pytz directory that has an __init__.py. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
