> That's probably because the rpm module is a Red Hat thing, not a > Python thing. An RPM of Python 2.4 for a system with Python 2.3 on it > probably doesn't include the rpm module because it's not generally > needed outside the RH utilities, which all pretty much require that > you use the version of python installed with the system (if for no > other reason than that you get the non-standard modules that are > installed with it). > > Not sure which way to advise you to go from here.... > Thanks for your attention. I appreciate it. I keep feeling like I'm 'this close' to fixing the problem and that my difficulty is so fundamental/simple/ignorant that Python folks can't see what I'm asking. Let me try to ask this one more time. In Perl, users can install modules in their home directories. The make command changes by adding PREFIX=$HOME/user_perl or some such thing and then when you want to run a Perl program that uses both modules from the /usr/lib/perl5 set and the user's set, you can add a use lib command in the Perl program so it goes to look in $HOME/user_perl when it can't find it in /usr/lib/perl5. I think there is also an environment way to set that path, but I don't generally do it. On This Debian system that has python installed (it has versions 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4), I want to take the same approach of building Python modules for beecrypt and rpm and installing them in $HOME/packages and then when I run the Python program, i want it to behave like Perl and get modules from either place. So far, I am able, I think, to force my beecrypt and rpm to build against the python2.4 that is installed on the system. I can install them in $HOME/packages/lib/python2.4. But I do not know the magical incantation that will allow a python 2.4 program to run and use modules stored in $HOME. From my reading, I though that if I did this: export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/packages/lib/python2.4:$PYTHONPATH it would be sufficient. But it seems not to be because a python2.4 program that runs does not look for modules in $HOME/packages/lib/python2.4. I'm surprised this doesn't come up more often. In Perl, it gets discussed all the time. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
