Solved. GAE doesn't like 2.6 on OS X. Changing to 2.5 via the Preferences dialog in Launcher fixed it (but I had to quit and restart the Launcher app for it to take effect). More on this issue at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=985 if anyone cares.
Cheers, Mike On Jul 10, 11:52 pm, MikeEllis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get started with GAE. Just downloaded GAE SDK 1.3.5 and > installed on OS X 10.6.4. > > Seems to be working for a trivial hello world example that doesn't use > web2py but I can't get any of my web2py apps to run, even a brand new > one created with the admin interface. Dies importing from gluon.tools > with the following error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/mellis/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in > restricted > exec ccode in environment > File "/Users/mellis/web2py/applications/hellogae/models/db.py", line > 29, in <module> > from gluon.tools import * > File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/ > GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/ > google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 1286, in Decorate > return func(self, *args, **kwargs) > > ------- < SNIP > ----- > > File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/ > GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/ > google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 1789, in > LoadModuleRestricted > description) > File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ > python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module> > from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array > ImportError: No module named _ctypes > > Not sure what's going on. > * All apps run fine on localhost under rocket.py > * I can open python on the command line and execute the failing import > statement without error. > > What dumb thing have I overlooked? > > Thanks, > Mike
