import pymongo works in Python interpreter but not script
mongodb, pymongo, python
Solution
Found it! Required a path append before importing of the pymongo module
sys.path.append('/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
import pymongo
Would ideally like to find a way to append this to the pythonpath permanently, but this works for now!
Problem
I first installed pymongo using easy_install, that didn't work so I tried with pip and it is still failing. This is fine in the terminal: ``` Macintosh:etc me$ python Python 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011, 14:13:39) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pymongo >>> ``` But on line 10 of my script ``` import pymongo ``` throws the following error: File "test.py", line 10, >in <module> import pymongo ImportError: No module named pymongo I'm using the standard Lion builds of Apache and Python. Is there anybody else who has experienced this? Thanks EDIT: I should also mention that during install it throws the following error ``` Downloading/unpacking pymongo Downloading pymongo-2.1.1.tar.gz (199Kb): 199Kb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package pymongo Installing collected packages: pymongo Running setup.py install for pymongo building 'bson._cbson' extension gcc-4.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch ppc -arch i386 -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Ibson -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c bson/_cbsonmodule.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/bson/_cbsonmodule.o unable to execute gcc-4.0: No such file or directory command 'gcc-4.0' failed with exit status 1 ************************************************************** WARNING: The bson._cbson extension module could not be compiled. No C extensions are essential for PyMongo to run, although they do result in significant speed improvements. If you are seeing this message on Linux you probably need to install GCC and/or the Python development package for your version of Python. Python development package names for popular Linux distributions include: RHEL/CentOS: python-devel Debian/Ubuntu: python-dev Above is the ouput showing how the compilation failed. ************************************************************** building 'pymongo._cmessage' extension gcc-4.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch ppc -arch i386 -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Ibson -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c pymongo/_cmessagemodule.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/pymongo/_cmessagemodule.o unable to execute gcc-4.0: No such file or directory command 'gcc-4.0' failed with exit status 1 ************************************************************** WARNING: The pymongo._cmessage extension module could not be compiled. No C extensions are essential for PyMongo to run, although they do result in significant speed improvements. If you are seeing this message on Linux you probably need to install GCC and/or the Python development package for your version of Python. Python development package names for popular Linux distributions include: RHEL/CentOS: python-devel Debian/Ubuntu: python-dev Above is the ouput showing how the compilation failed. ************************************************************** ``` And then goes on to say ``` Successfully installed pymongo Cleaning up... Macintosh:etc me$ ``` Very odd. My sys.path in script is returned as: ['/Library/WebServer/Documents/', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tweepy-1.7.1-py2.7.egg', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages'] And in interpreter: ['', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLObject-1.2.1-py2.7.egg', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FormEncode-1.2.4-py2.7.egg', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tweepy-1.7.1-py2.7.egg', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages']