[PyOpenGL-Users] newbie install question: PyOpenGL confused by 2.2 and 2.3?

[David v. K. <dvu...@ho...>]

Hi,
I've tried to follow the instructions on
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/documentation/installation.html
to install PyOpenGL on my Win XP system. I first D/L'ed GLUT 3.7.6 and
updated my NVIDIA driver, just in case! I can see a prebuilt .exe (smooth)
so I know that everything is OK outside the Python world.

However, running the GLUT example molehill.py doesn't quite work. Double
clicking the .py file gets me the "OpenGL.GL module doesn't exist" error
that means (to me) that I'm running the IDE from the Python 2.3 directory.
Choosing Pythonwin from the 2.2 directory and opening/running molehill.py
gets me a blank window, titled molehill. Is my problem that I shouldn't try
to launch a PyOpenGL app from inside a Python GUI? Or is 2.3 still getting
in the way at some other level?

My ultimate interest in PyOpenGL is to write an OpenGL accelerator script
for the app Poser, from Curious Labs. Poser renders in software, slowly.
Poser has an embedded Python 2.2 interpreter. Poser can export Wavefront OBJ
files, so I hope to take the OBJ file, parse it with glm, render, and
ReadPixels back into Poser. Looking beyond my immediate problems, I notice
that Poser creates polygons other than triangles. Will I have to triangulate
everything before I can use glm?

Thanks for your advice,
David vun Kannon