[Grok-dev] Grokserver scripts using a different path than python's console

Jeffrey Peterson bgpete at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 12:15:09 EST 2010 

Yeah, what he said.. :)

Glad it's working for you.

Incidentally this is the route you should take for all packages you want to include.

If the package you want isn't in pypi (which, chances are usually pretty small)  investigate find-links.

Jeff.

On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:

> No, you should not install your dependency package under dist-packages
> before running bin/buildout.
> 
> Yes, it is fetched "magically". The magic is not grokproject's, but
> comes from buildout:
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout
> 
> Which is what you executed when you ran bin/buildout.
> 
> Buildout's magic comes from setuptools (or distribute), and (by
> default) fetches packages that are registered, in the Python Package
> Index (PyPI, for short):
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/
> 
> MySQL-python is registered on PyPI at:
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/
> 
> And you'll notice that version 1.2.3 is the latest registered there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leo
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 17:50, Hector Blanco <white.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let me re-phrase it...
>> 
>> By adding the 'mysql-python' to the install_requires in my
>> $HOME/myown-cms/server/setup.py, it works:
>> 
>>      install_requires=['setuptools',
>>                        'grok',
>>                        'grokui.admin',
>>                        'z3c.testsetup',
>>                        'grokcore.startup',
>>                        # Add extra requirements here
>>                        'mysql-python'
>> 
>> It properly gets
>> *************** PICKED VERSIONS ****************
>> [versions]
>> MySQL-python = 1.2.3
>> 
>> *************** /PICKED VERSIONS ***************
>> 
>> when I re-run bin/buildout, but I'd like to know a little bit more
>> about what happened there.
>> 
>> Did the script grab the mysql-python from the version I had installed
>> under /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/? I mean... if I want  to
>> use an external package (such as this one, where I have to download
>> the .tar.gz or another package installed with apt-get), should I
>> download the package, install it (under dist-packages/, probably) and
>> then add it to install_requires? Or does grok know where to get the
>> mysql-python package "magically"?
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> 
>> 2010/12/15 Hector Blanco <white.lists at gmail.com>:
>>> Wow... thank you for the quick answer...
>>> 
>>> I see a setup.py under my "server" folder, but that is automatically
>>> created with grokproject. Should I put it there and re-run
>>> bin/buildout?
>>> 
>>> 2010/12/15 Jeffrey Peterson <bgpete at gmail.com>:
>>>> Put mysql-python in install requires in setup.py and let grokproject install it for you.
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Hector Blanco wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello everyone... I just tried to install the latest version of
>>>>> grokserver (1.2.1) but for some reason the PATH the scripts to install
>>>>> and start the server differ for the path the regular python console
>>>>> uses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I created a "server" project under "$HOME/myown-cms/" using:
>>>>> $ grokproject server
>>>>> (no sudo)
>>>>> 
>>>>> It worked fine, everything was installed and the server started working.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then I manually installed the MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz package which
>>>>> installs its .egg under /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>>>> 
>>>>> And when I tried to use it in my grokserver application, I got a nasty
>>>>> exception: ImportError: No module named MySQLdb. If I open a python
>>>>> console I can properly import MySQLdb.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I studied the version and the path both console and the grok-scripts
>>>>> under server/bin/ are using, and I got this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> In bin/paster:
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> /usr/bin/python2.6
>>>>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/parts/app
>>>>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/bin
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
>>>>> /home/ae/myown-cms/server/src
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/z3c.evalexception-2.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/Paste-1.7.5.1-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/PasteScript-1.7.3-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.4-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.security-3.7.4-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/grokcore.startup-1.1-py2.6.egg
>>>>> 
>>>>> [ . . . A LOT OF OTHER EGGS IN $HOME/.buildout/eggs . . . ]
>>>>> 
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/mechanize-0.2.3-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.minmax-1.1.2-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.tal-3.5.2-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/RestrictedPython-3.6.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.datetime-3.4.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /home/ae/.buildout/eggs/zope.testing-3.10.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> For the console:
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ae at ae-desktop:~$ python
>>>>> Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41)
>>>>> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
>>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>>>> sys.executable
>>>>> '/usr/bin/python'
>>>>> (just a link to /usr/bin/python2.6, same thing the paster script)
>>>>>>>> for pth in sys.path:
>>>>> ...     print pth
>>>>> ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/grokproject-2.2-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml-2.3beta1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/hashlib-20081119-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/feedparser-4.1-py2.6.egg
>>>>> 
>>>>> [ . . . A LOT OF OTHER EGGS IN /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ . . . ]
>>>>> 
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zope.copy-3.5.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zope.testing-3.10.0-py2.6.egg
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10
>>>>> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
>>>>> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> The Path information under /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>>>> that appears with the console doesn't appear in the paster script, and
>>>>> I don't know why... Do I have to install the grokserver being root?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have another instance of grokserver running with python2.4, and I
>>>>> was able to import the module MySQLdb there. I read that I could be
>>>>> having this kind of trouble for having two different python versions,
>>>>> but I'm not really sure if this problem is caused for that or not.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any hint will be deeply appreciated. Thank you in advance
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