I am new to python and GDAL and am having trouble using GDAL from anything other than the standard python command line or the Python IDLE Tk GUI. If I try to import GDAL using any 3rd party IDE's version of the Python shell I get the following errors:
<br><br>File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\gdal\gdal.py", line 191, in ?<br> import _gdal<br>ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.<br><br>I have tried this from the following IDEs
<br>1) SPE<br>2) pyDev<br>3) Wing<br><br clear="all">I am running Python on a Windows XP workstation and have installed it all in the following manner:<br>1) Downloaded and installed Python 2.4.4 using the installer (python-2.4.4.msi
) from <a href="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</a><br>2) Downloaded and installed gdal-python-13.win32-py2.4.exe from <a href="http://www.urbansim.org/download/files/third-party/">http://www.urbansim.org/download/files/third-party/
</a>. When I tried a more recent version found at <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/</a> the installation did not generate a /gdal folder and could not be loaded as a module even from the Python command line
<br>3) Created a PYTHONPATH environment variable with the following value: C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\gdal<br><br>Can anyone provide insight here? Did I go about the installation of GDAL in the wrong way? Is there some other way to register the GDAL module so that 3rd party IDEs can see it? If anyone out there has a step-by-step instruction manual for getting Python/GDAL/numpy/scipy and an IDE running that a total newbie could understand I would be grateful.
<br><br>Thanks for any help that can be offered,<br><br>Kerry<br><br>-- <br>Kerry Halligan<br><a href="mailto:halligan.kerry@gmail.com">halligan.kerry@gmail.com</a>