[wxPython-users] beginner

[Robin Dunn]

Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Hi!
> I am a complete beginner to Python and wxPython.
> I have just installed wx on my machine but i m not able to run the samples.
> My environment looks like this ...
> 
> $PYTHONPATH=/scratch/kmaheshw/wxPython-src-2.6.3.3/wxPython
> $WX_CONFIG=/scratch/kmaheshw/wxPython/bld/bin/wx-config
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/scratch/kmaheshw/wxPython/bld/lib
> 
> When I try to run the demo program as follows:
> demo > python2.3 demo.py
> 
> I get following error ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "demo.py", line 3, in ?
>     import Main
>   File "/scratch/kmaheshw/wxPython-src-2.6.3.3/wxPython/demo/Main.py", 
> line 32, in ?
>     import wx                  # This module uses the new wx namespace
> ImportError: No module named wx
> 
> What should I do?

Did you follow all of the build steps?  If you didn't do the build step 
for wxPython then wxPython-src-2.6.3.3/wxPython/wx won't get a 
__init__.py file copied into it and you could end up with this error.

http://wxpython.org/builddoc.php

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Robin Dunn
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