Kid import error from quickstart

[Steven Kryskalla]

Hello,

When running tg-admin quickstart I get a traceback that kid does not
have attribute HTMLSerializer. The reason why kid does not have
HTMLSerializer is because view.py is importing the kid script, not the
kid package!

If I stick "print kid.__file__" after importing kid in view.py, I get
this path:

c:\python24\lib\site-packages\kid-0.8-py2.4.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\kid

Which is not right, but if I hard code the path by using something like
imp.load_module("kid", None,
'c:\\python24\\lib\\site-packages\\kid-0.8-py2.4.egg\\kid', ('', '',
5)), then it naturally gets the right kid package:

c:\python24\lib\site-packages\kid-0.8-py2.4.egg\kid\__init__.pyc

I had this problem a few months ago with 0.8a5, which I got around by
using load_module. I also got it just now after updating to 0.8.8. I
followed the normal install instructions for Windows, but it seems like
something is messed up on my end. I don't see any other people having
this problem, but just in case this was my cheap solution (short of
reinstalling everything).

Steve

[Kevin Dangoor]

Hi Steve,

That's very strange. Do you have any kind of manually set pythonpath?
There must be something different in your environment, because this is
the first I've seen of this.

Kevin

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[Steven Kryskalla]

I know what's happening now. tg-admin is running from the
\python24\scripts directory, where there is a kid.py script, so it's
actually importing that. If I run "import kid" from any directory
other than \python24\scripts then it gets the right file, but if I do
"import kid" from my \python24\scripts directory, I get the wrong file:

c:\python24\lib\site-packages\kid-0.8-py2.4.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\kid

Just as a test I removed kid.py in the scripts directory and the
problem went away. Kind of weird, but that's alright.

Steve