4suite xml in Python: error importing

[anthro398]

I've used 4suite in earlier version of Ubuntu and, if I recall correctly, I've had this same problem. I did apt-get install python-4suite-xml and 4suite installed fine, but I can't import anything from it. I get this error:


>>> from Ft.Xml import Domlette
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport_python_hook.py", line 30, in apport_excepthook
import apport.report, apport.fileutils
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from apport.report import Report
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport/report.py", line 17, in <module>
import xml.dom, xml.dom.minidom
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/__init__.py", line 220, in <module>
from xml.dom import DOMImplementation
ImportError: cannot import name DOMImplementation

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Ft/Xml/__init__.py", line 160, in <module>
from Ft.Xml.Lib.XmlString import SplitQName
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Ft/Xml/Lib/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
from xml.dom import Node
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/__init__.py", line 220, in <module>
from xml.dom import DOMImplementation
ImportError: cannot import name DOMImplementation


I think that in the past I've installed it manually from source, but I'd rather, of course, have it maintained by the repository. Anyone else have this problem? I wonder if the module is being deposited outside of my python path... By the way, this Xpath, Xquery, XML library is pretty useful, quick, and simple. I use it at work all the time.

[anthro398]

Ok, so I was right. The default install location when installing 4suite from the Ubuntu repository is /usr/share/pycentral/, which is not added to the python module search path. This works:


>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/usr/share/pycentral/')
>>> from Ft.Xml import Domlette


But who wants to manually append to the path each time. I see there is a config file at /etc/python2.5/site.py
that seems to deal with this, but it's confusing.

Does anyone know if this is where a new path should be added?

[WW]

The source of the error in the error message appears to be this:


from xml.dom import DOMImplementation
ImportError: cannot import name DOMImplementation

Can you try that import statement by itself in an interactive python shell? Here is what I get (in Dapper):


~$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 6 2006, 07:52:30)
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.dom import DOMImplementation
>>>


EDIT: Your second post showed up while I was editing, so you can probably ignore this!