> > 1. Orbit-python problem (newbie)
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> Subject: Orbit-python problem (newbie)
> From: "Sergio Millich" <millichs@i...>
> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 17:32:27
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> I've installed the orbit-python package as described, either by gnorpm or
> through configure-make-make-install, I have the following message when I
> run the server Python program (Chapter 20): "import CORBA  ImportError: 
No
> module named CORBA". Is something wrong with my environment ? I use SuSE
> Linux 7.3 and the orbit-python package did not come with the 
distribution.
> Can someone help? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sergio Millich

If you have installed a orbit-python package (the one described in
Chapter 20 has been replaced by a new one, so the examples don't work
anymore :-( ), you should be able to do "import CORBA."

Your first problem certainly seems to be with the CORBA module
installation.  Take a look in
/usr/lib/python[version-installed]/site-lisp.  You should find the file
CORBAmodule.so, which is, I believe, what Python is going to try to
import.

Take a look at what the RPM package has in it; if it hasn't that .so
file, then it's likely you have something missing.

Big caveat after that: the orbit-python described in Chapter 20 has been
replaced by something newer with the same name that hasn't quite the
same API.

from the Debian README for python-orbit:

python-orbit for Debian
----------------------

This package used to contain PyOrbit.  However, since that project
seems abandoned upstream, it was replaced with ORBit-Python.  Both
modules are Python bindings for ORBit, but the API might have changed.
Please read the examples.

 -- Roland Mas <lolando@d...>, Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:58:19 +0100
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Thanks for the tip. In fact under Suse Linux 7.3 the shared libraries were 
installed in the wrong directory (/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages instead 
of /usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages where the other libs are). I 
just copied the two *.so files to the right place and that fixed the 
import problem. But there still remains the change in the API, when I run 
the program I get a an unknown attribute error on CORBA.Load_IDL. Is there 
a way to adapt the code easily?

Sergio Millich