Problems getting python console to launch

[Christian Stimming]

Zitat von Emil Kantis <e.kantis at gmail.com>:
> I'm looking into applying to the Python reporting and scripting  
> engine project and I've built the gnucash source, with the  
> src/python/init.py line changed as described in  
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-March/031506.html
> I ran ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash and set the Pythonpath to  
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/ (also tried /opt/gnucash/lib/python) but  
> the python console won't load. Another person in the IRC had the  
> same problem. Help appreciated.

Dear Emil,

this sounds good so far. However, what error message do you see on  
program launch? Is there some message in the trace file  
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile ?

In my setup, when I forgot to adapt the PYTHON_PATH, I see some error  
message like "could not import * from gnucash" or similar in the trace  
file in one line that indicates that init.py cannot be run. Once I  
chose the correct PYTHON_PATH, there was no such error message but  
instead plenty of debug output that is run in the python code. With  
your prefix=/opt/gnucash, the PYTHON_PATH probably needs to be
   export PYTHON_PATH=/opt/gnucash/lib/python
or "python2.6" - whatever directory is existing there after you ran  
"make install". Also note that of course you need to enable the python  
module at configure time, using ./configure --enable-python  
--prefix=/your/prefix/blabla

Regards,

Christian