Hi All,
I updated my markdown (from an old version, when I was still running
python 2.5 and mac 10.4) to the latest 2.0 release.
But I ran into a problem when I tried to 'import markdown' from the
interpreter:
ImportError: cannot import name COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL
After a long hard search (my knowledge and understanding of how python
modules, init files and the pythonpath work is rather limited), I
found the culprit cause:
The installer (which runs through 'easy_install markdown', or through
'sudo python setup.py install'), installs a command line version of
markdown, called markdown.py in the bin.
On my mac it installs this command line version markdown.py in /
Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin
On a freebsd machine it installs in in /usr/local/bin
The problem is that this bin directory is present in my sys.path as
well as in my $PATH
The latter is obviously on purpose: the command line executable should
be on my $PATH to be able to run it in the command line.
However, since that bin is also included in python's sys.path, my
guess is that every attempt to 'import markdown' or 'from markdown
import ...' will import that command line version, and not the
__init__.py in the site-packages/markdown/
(I don't know why or how I could prevent this the inclusion of this
bin in my sys.path)
My quick fix was to rename that command line version into something
else or to move the markdown.py to somewhere where it can be found on
the $PATH, but not in sys.path.
Just to report my findings.
And maybe somebody could improve the installer, explain me what I was
doing wrong or update the installation documentation.
best
dirk
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