mxDateTime on Mac: Fatal Python Error

con...@alanlittle.org

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Mar 7, 2005, 5:14:42 AM3/7/05

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I'm trying to get mxDateTime working on a Mac so that I can use pyscopg
and cx_Oracle. The Egenix base package builds and installs quite
happily, but then when I try to import it I get

>> import mx.DateTime
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Abort

... any ideas?

Environment:

OS X 10.3.8
sys.version: '2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) \n[GCC 3.3 20030304
(Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)]'
egenix-mx-base-2.0.6

Dave Reed

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Mar 7, 2005, 6:38:51 PM3/7/05

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On Monday 07 March 2005 17:51, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> con...@alanlittle.org wrote:
> > I'm trying to get mxDateTime working on a Mac so that I can use
pyscopg
> > and cx_Oracle. The Egenix base package builds and installs quite
> > happily, but then when I try to import it I get
> >
> >
> >>>import mx.DateTime
> >
> > Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
> > Abort
> >
> > ... any ideas?
>

> Messages like these are usually the result of a version mismatch
> between the Python interpreter and the .so file of the extensions.
>
> Make sure you build the package using the same Python interpreter
> you will later use it with.

>
> > Environment:
> >
> > OS X 10.3.8
> > sys.version: '2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) \n[GCC 3.3 20030304
> > (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)]'
> > egenix-mx-base-2.0.6
>

> Hmm, this might also be some weird Mac OS issue. While we currently
> don't support Macs directly, we do welcome suggestions to make them
> work on your favorite platform.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> eGenix.com
>

Works fine for me on a 2004 PowerBook with 10.3.8.

I'm using Python from DarwinPorts for pygtk and am using mx.DateTime
with it. I don't remember if DarwinPorts had mx.DateTime or if I
downloaded the source and installed it myself. I suspect it's the
version mismatch problem mentioned above.

502 mac:~ $ /opt/local/bin/python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 9 2004, 21:05:33)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mx.DateTime
>>>

Dave

Michael Maibaum

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Mar 7, 2005, 6:49:47 PM3/7/05

to M.-A. Lemburg, pytho...@python.org, con...@alanlittle.org

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:51:20PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>con...@alanlittle.org wrote:

>>I'm trying to get mxDateTime working on a Mac so that I can use pyscopg
>>and cx_Oracle. The Egenix base package builds and installs quite
>>happily, but then when I try to import it I get
>>
>>
>>>>import mx.DateTime
>>
>>Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
>>Abort
>>
>>... any ideas?
>

>Messages like these are usually the result of a version mismatch
>between the Python interpreter and the .so file of the extensions.
>
>Make sure you build the package using the same Python interpreter
>you will later use it with.

It is most likely a result of this:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050324.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/python...@python.org/msg00964.html

>>Environment:
>>
>>OS X 10.3.8
>>sys.version: '2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) \n[GCC 3.3 20030304
>>(Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)]'
>>egenix-mx-base-2.0.6
>

>Hmm, this might also be some weird Mac OS issue. While we currently
>don't support Macs directly, we do welcome suggestions to make them
>work on your favorite platform.

If it is related to the issue I mention above, then it is a distutils specific bug fixed in current versions of Python, but not in the version installed by default by OS X.