Re: [Open Babel] pybel installation problem in Windows XP

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

Could you copy and paste the entire transcript of the installation
tests (http://openbabel.org/docs/dev/UseTheLibrary/PythonInstall.html#test-the-installation)
from the same command prompt?

- Noel

On 4 April 2011 21:41, Paul Brennan <drb...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having a problem installing pybel in Windows XP.  I am using Windows XP
> SP3, have Python 2.7.1 installed on C:\, OpenBabel-2.3.0 installed on C:\
> and installed the bindings via openbabel-python-1.6.py27.exe.  The OpenBabel
> GUI works fine, BABEL_DATADIR is set to C:\OpenBabel-2.3.0\data and I can
> run through the first two installation tests, babel -V and babel -Hsdf from
> Idle or the command line with the expected results; but when I try the third
> test:
>
>>>> import pybel
>>>> mol = pybel.readstring("smi", "CC(=O)Br")
>>>> mol.make3D()
>>>> print(mol.write("sdf"))
>
> I don't get the expected sdf description, I get
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
>     mol = pybel.readstring("smi", "CC(=O)Br")
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pybel.py", line 119, in readstring
>     raise ValueError("%s is not a recognised OpenBabel format" % format)
> ValueError: smi is not a recognised OpenBabel format
>
> Any help fixing the installation would be most appreciated.
>
> Paul
>
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