Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2005, 09:49 -0600 schrieb Ronni: > I want to use postgres with python but I can't seem to get it working. > If I read things correctly I need python installed then I need postgres > installed. I did both on my Sun Solaris Opteron AMD 64 (Mandrake 10.1 > os) using the --enable-shared and --with-python options. Both came back > with ready statements. I can do stuff with python and I can do stuff > with postgres - but I can't seem to do stuff with both! I installed > Python-2.4.1 and PostGreSQL-8.0.3. > > I read up and decided that I needed PyGreSQL so downloaded > PyGreSQL-3.6.2 and had to work extensively (before asking for help there > again) to get just the compile to work. It seems to add the shared > library but the "python setup.py install" doesn't work AT ALL. > > My question is - is there a more simple way? I must surely be doing > something wrong. Maybe I don't even need PyGreSQL. > "doesnt work at all" is not a good problem report. Its better to include the output of the run. python setup.py will also tell you options you can give (specify path to your postgres libs/includes and so on) Did you install python from source too? Most people use psycopg with python and postgres. -- Tino Wildenhain <tino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
