[gdal-dev] Problem importing osgeo module in Python

[Christopher Barker]

Roger André wrote:

> $ python
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> from osgeo import gdal
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named osgeo
> --> Not good.
> 
> Looking back through the make output, I see that the osgeo modules are 
> being created and copied:
>     copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.3/osgeo/gdal.py -> 
> /export/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/osgeo
> 
> So I tried appending the location to the sys.path in Python to make the 
> modules available,

that shouldn't be required -- site-packages should be on your sys.path 
already. Is your python in /export/lib64/python2.3 ? Do you have more 
than one python?

try:

$ which python

and maybe something like:

$ python
 >> import datetime 3 or any standard module
 >> print datetime.__file__

As a way to see where your python install is.

Also -- why python 2.3? that's getting pretty darn old!

-Chris


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