[openbabel-scripting] Re: Python module loading problems...

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

Good news!

I just got a very helpful posting from the SWIG mailing list:

On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Josh Cherry wrote:
> A while ago I was doing something where I
> had to mess around with Python's dll parameters, something like
>
> import sys
> import dl
> sys.setdlopenflags(sys.getdlopenflags() | dl.RTLD_GLOBAL)

This goes before the "import openbabel" bits in a Python script. I've  
verified that it is a workaround on Linux.

I'd still like to make sure this won't be needed in the future (e.g.,  
it's already in openbabel.py). At the worst, I think it can probably  
get added to the top of openbabel.py before anything else happens.

Please let me know if this works for you or if there are still issues.

Cheers,
-Geoff