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Mac OSX sqlite problem. Missing?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Sep 11 08:26:52 EDT 2007 
scottishguy wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2:46 am, "attn.steven.... at gmail.com"
> <attn.steven.... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 10, 1:51 pm, ricardo.turp... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>>>> Are you by any chance using the python 2.3 when issuing that import
>>>> statement?
>>>> Diez
>>> Unfortunately not :(
>>> ibook:~/project1$ python -V
>>> Python 2.5
>>> ibook:~/project1$ python
>>> Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import sqlite
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> ImportError: No module named sqlite
>> Isn't it sqlite3 (instead of sqlite)?
>>
>> Python 2.5.1c1 (r251c1:54692, Apr 17 2007, 21:12:16)
>> [GCC 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)] on darwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import sqlite3
>>>>> sqlite3.Connection
>> <type 'sqlite3.Connection'>>>> sqlite3.Connection.__doc__
>>
>> 'SQLite database connection object.'
>>
>>
>>
>> I also see it under that name in the repository:
>>
>>    http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/sqlite3/
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps,
>> Steven
> 
> The problem is that the user is trying to install the turbogears
> framework, and 'tg-admin' tries to import sqlite (not sqlite3)
> 
> He's getting this error:
>  'import sqlite.  ImportError: No module named sqlite'.
> 
> Without changing the turbogears code, what should he do? Set up a
> symbolic link from 'sqlite3' to 'sqlite' ?
> 
An alternative would be to create a local sqlite.py (importable by tg) 
containing

from sqlite3 import *

though this may not work with an extension module if namespace tricks 
are invoked.

regards
  Steve
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