Default or fink python and lxml under 10.6.8
- by songdogtech
Ah, confusion.
I'm trying to install a python library called lxml as needed by a python script. I've been through numerous SU quesitons and answers. I haven't been able to make much progress.
I run easy_install lxml and get:
Processing lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg lxml 3.0.1 is
already the active version in easy-install.pth
Using
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg
Processing dependencies for lxml Finished processing dependencies for
lxml
but when I run my script, I get:
File "scraper.py", line 3, in
import lxml.html File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/lxml/html/init.py",
line 42, in
from lxml import etree
ImportError:
dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/lxml/etree.so,
2): Symbol not found: _htmlParseChunk Referenced from:
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/lxml/etree.so
Expected in: flat namespace in
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lxml-3.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/lxml/etree.so
I think that maybe I'm not using the correct python install? I've installed python with fink, but should I use OS X's python?
This is in my .profile:
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
which points to the fink install.
echo $PATH gives me:
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
Should I change that to point to snow leopard's python? (Which is 2.6.1) In Library/, there is:
which are the lxml libaries I need, it appears, as well as requests.
And whereis python gives me /usr/bin/python
What do I do? How do I get python to use these libraries. And which python?
