[Zope] installing ReportLabs

Jerome Alet alet@librelogiciel.com
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:09:01 +0200


On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:36:51PM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> I installed the report labs product per the instructions included with
> the product in Zope's  .../lib/python/Shared directory with the interface
> routine rlzope installed in the Extensions directory.
> 
> When try to install the External Method it fails because it cannot import
> Paragraph from Shared.reportlab.platypus.paragrah.  A path problem of some 
> sort, but it's not clear where the problem lies.  
> 
> ANyone else encountered this one?

No, but I've always installed ReportLab outside of Zope, and run Zope
build from source, and it works fine.

If you launch Zope with a Python which is not included in the Zope tree,
then install reportlab in /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages and it
should be ok.

hth

Jerome Alet