Python, Django and virtualenv

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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by iceman on 2009-07-17 07:41:09:

Post Reply? Hi folks, I have installed Django application on Dreamhost, and it’s working great, but I need a bit more. The application I’ve made needs Python Imaging Library(PIL) and also will need hashlib, so I need some extra things in my Python installation. After realizing, that there is no PIL in standard instalation of Python (Django throw me an error), I went to dreamhost wiki(http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Python), and decided to install virtualenv. Here is step by step what i’ve made: $ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.1.tar.gz $ tar xzf virtualenv-1.1.tar.gz $ python2.4 virtualenv-1.1/virtualenv.py $HOME/local and then: $ echo “source $HOME/local/bin/activate” >> ~/.bash_profile $ source ~/.bash_profile So theoreticaly, everything went great, and I tried to install PIL, but everything was wrong: (local)[rossmore]$ easy_install PIL (i tried also python2.4 easy_install PIL) Searching for PIL Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/PIL/ Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil Reading http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm Reading http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging No local packages or download links found for PIL error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(’PIL’) But after reading documentation of PIL I was quite sure it should work(PIL works with python 2.4), and version should fit. I tried then to install it with direct addres to package: (local)[rossmore]$ easy_install http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz Searching for PIL Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/PIL/ Reading http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil Reading http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm Reading http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging No local packages or download links found for PIL error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(’PIL’) (local)[rossmore]$ python2.4 easy_install http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz Downloading http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz Processing Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz Running Imaging-1.1.6/setup.py -q bdist_egg –dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-sF7Z0s/Imaging-1.1.6/egg-dist-tmp-vK_Qor libImaging/Effects.c:210: warning: `perlin_init’ defined but not used libImaging/Geometry.c:236: warning: `quadratic_transform’ defined but not used libImaging/Quant.c:311: warning: `test_sorted’ defined but not used libImaging/QuantHash.c:136: warning: `_hashtable_test’ defined but not used ——————————————————————– PIL 1.1.6 BUILD SUMMARY ——————————————————————– version 1.1.6 platform linux2 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 29 2008, 08:45:14) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] ——————————————————————– *** TKINTER support not available — JPEG support ok — ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok — FREETYPE2 support ok *** Warning: zlib 1.2.2 may contain a security vulnerability. *** Consider upgrading to zlib 1.2.3 or newer. *** See: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/680620 http://www.gzip.org/zlib/advisory-2002-03-11.txt ——————————————————————– To add a missing option, make sure you have the required library, and set the corresponding ROOT variable in the setup.py script. To check the build, run the selftest.py script. zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents… IcnsImagePlugin: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script Image: module references __file__ ImageFileIO: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script ImageFont: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script ImageStat: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script OleFileIO: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script SpiderImagePlugin: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script WalImageFile: top-level module may be ‘python -m’ script Adding PIL 1.1.6 to easy-install.pth file Installing pilconvert.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pildriver.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilfile.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilfont.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilprint.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installed /home/.bobbin/nsorg/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL-1.1.6-py2.4-linux-i686 .egg Processing dependencies for PIL==1.1.6 Finished processing dependencies for PIL==1.1.6 (local)[rossmore]$ python2.4 easy_install PIL Searching for PIL Best match: PIL 1.1.6 Processing PIL-1.1.6-py2.4-linux-i686.egg PIL 1.1.6 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing pilconvert.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pildriver.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilfile.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilfont.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Installing pilprint.py script to /home/nsorg/local/bin Using /home/.bobbin/nsorg/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL-1.1.6-py2.4-linux-i686 .egg Processing dependencies for PIL Finished processing dependencies for PIL BUT, when i try to load this module in python shell: (local)[rossmore]$ python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 29 2008, 08:45:14) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> import PIL Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named PIL So it doesn’t work, and I have no clue why. I’m a bit shaky in python and virtualmod area, and it always big problem for me to install additional modules in different hostings. I hope you will be able to help me. I would be realy appreciated for any help.

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