Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Can't import COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

It occurs to me that you may not have uninstalled an older version
before installing the new one.  The problem is that when the
commandline script is named "markdown.py" it will only ever try to
import itself rather than the markdown library.  There are solutions
available to reconfigure your system to not have this problem
(fiddling with the PYTHONPATH), but that is not something we should
expect our users to do. The solution we used instead was to rename the
commandline script by dropping the ".py".  I'm guessing that because
you did not uninstall the older version, "markdown.py" is still in
your bin and will still raise the error. First check that
"/usr/local/bin/markdown" exists, then delete the older script at
"/usr/local/bin/markdown.py" and just remember to use "markdown" from
now on.

On a somewhat related note, a bug report has been filed with Ubuntu
[1] because both the python and perl implementations of markdown use
"markdown" as their commandline script which creates a conflict.  So
we will be changing the commandline script name again in the next
release. Sigh!   Unless someone has a better suggestion, we'll use
"markdown-python" as that will show up in autocompletion if one types
"markdown".

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593565

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jan Erik Moström <li...@mo...> wrote:
> I just tried installing this version but get the same result, this is
> on OS X 10.6.4 - standard install. The python version is 2.6.1, the
> version in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/markdown is 2.0.3 (I've
> tried logging in/out etc).
>
> Any advice on how to proceed is most welcome.
>
> - jem
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:57, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
>> It would appear that you have installed an older version which had
>> this problem on some systems depending on how they are configured.
>>
>> The latest version (currently 2.0.3)  is here:
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Jan Erik Moström <li...@mo...> wrote:
>>> I just installed python markdown and tried to run it and got the
>>> following message
>>>
>>>  File "/usr/local/bin/markdown.py", line 44, in <module>
>>>    from markdown import COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL
>>>  File "/usr/local/bin/markdown.py", line 44, in <module>
>>>    from markdown import COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL
>>> ImportError: cannot import name COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea what I missed during install?
>>>
>>> - jem
>



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