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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 10:47:19 CST

Scott,
  At present I don't have an answer for you. We've had some similarly
odd problems importing modules on Linux, perhaps this is related.
Are you able to import any modules other than the math module?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:16:14AM -0500, Scott Stagg wrote:
> I am using VMD on Mac OS 10.2.4. After I "gopython", when I try to
> "import math", I get:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "VMD", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: Failure linking new module
>
> I can "import sys" with no problem, and outside of the VMD interface I
> can "import math" with no problem. When I "print sys.path", this is
> what I get:
>
> ['', '/Users/sstagg/pylib', '/Applications/vmd-1.8/VMD
> 1.8.app/Contents/Resources/vmd/scripts/python',
> '/Applications/vmd-1.8/VMD
> 1.8.app/Contents/Resources/vmd/plugins/noarch/python',
> '/usr/lib/python2.2', '/usr/lib/python2.2/plat-darwin',
> '/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload',
> '/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages']
>
> Anybody have any ideas how I can "import math"?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott 

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