[Zope] configuring Pythonwin for "import Zope"

[Chris McDonough]

You may need to set the PYTHONHOME environment variable to
Zope/lib/python, but make sure to also add an entry in PYTHONPATH to
the "normal" Python library directory.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <jtk@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.zope.general
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: [Zope] configuring Pythonwin for "import Zope"


> > - cd to your Zope's lib/python directory
> > - invoke python (the version that you compiled Zope with)
> > - at the interactive prompt type "import Zope"
>
> This has been such a useful tip. I've spent the better part of two
days
> poking around in python console learning a lot more about python
and Zope's
> objects than I did trying to make products with
edit-refresh-traceback
> cycles. The mistakes I was making with with import and from import
jump out
> at you right away. Great stuff.
>
> I would like to step it up to use Pythonwin for more
experimentation, The
> browsing and code-complete features should make it a lot of fun.
I've got
> Pythonwin 147 installed into my zope's python (used the registry
editor to
> make a python2.1 entry mimicing that of python2.2, so the
installer finds
> it). If you set the Pythonwin to startup in that dir, you can't
load the
> IDE.
>
> I added the path c:\progra~1\zope\lib\python to the Python Path,
but I can't
> "import Zope". I can browse those classes in the Python Path, but
they
> interactive prompt doesn't see the \lib\python heirarchy, unless
there's
> some special syntax to refer to it that I haven't seen yet.
>
> PythonWin's PythonPath setting
> C:\PROGRA~1\Zope\bin\Lib;C:\PROGRA~1\Zope\bin\DLLs;
> C:\PROGRA~1\Zope\lib\python
>
> >>> import Zope
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named Zope
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
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