Re: [Fwd: "import svn.repos" not working]

Ionut Scutaru wrote:
> Sorry for the HTML tags ... I'm sending the message again:
> ---------
> Hi all,
> I know this question have been asked before, but none of the answers
> solved my problem.. Can you help me, please ?
> 
> When I try to import the svn.repos, I get the following result:

Right.  Python is saying, "I can't import a module named svn.repos because I
can't find such a module."  Possible reasons:

   * You never installed the Subversion Python bindings
   * You installed them, but not in a location that Python knows to look in

> Probably I'm missing the Subversion Python bindings, but I thought I
> installed them. Aren't them usually located in
> //usr/local/lib/svn-python/libsvn/ ? Cause I added this folder to
> /etc/ld.so.conf and then I've run ldconfig, but nothing..

Ah.  So there's the answer.  Python doesn't do the whole /etc/ld.so.conf
thing.  I mean, it needs to recognize system library paths like that so any
compiled modules get proper linking and such, but in terms of just finding
modules, there's another set of places Python looks.  To see them for your
system, do this:

   $ python
   Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 2005, 12:11:53)
   [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>> import sys
   >>> sys.path
   ['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0']
   >>>

So, the trick I recommend to folks is that they visit
/usr/lib/python[VERSION]/site-packages, and in that directory, do:

   $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/svn-python/svn ./svn
   $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/svn-python/libsvn ./libsvn

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@xxxxxxxxxx>
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