[GRASS-dev] PYTHONPATH question

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> Michael Barton wrote:
>
>> See below...
>
> William has already identified the core problem: scripts are using a
> different version of Python to the interactive interpreter, and
> presumably only one of the two versions has matplotlib installed.
>
> If you set PYTHONPATH, all interpreters will find modules in those
> directories (it will even override system modules, so don't put the
> system directories in PYTHONPATH, only site-packages). If PYTHONPATH
> is unset, each version will use its own site-packages directory.
>
> Given that the two versions are almost identical (2.5.1 vs 2.5.2), I
> suggest setting PYTHONPATH to contain both modules' site-packages
> directories, and nothing else.
>
Or make sure the correct python is running.

They are similar versions, but compiled differently - one (2.5.1) for  
OSX Leopard, the other (2.5.2) for Tiger and also-works-on-Leopard.   
The Mac Python list would have a better idea if this a workable  
solution, or crazy.

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