[Paraview] Empty lib/python2.7/lib-dynload

[Cory Quammen]

Hi Santiago,

Thanks for the report. It looks like readline is not being included in the
packaging. I looked briefly in the ParaView superbuild repository to find
out why, but did not see the reason immediately. I have filed an issue for
this:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/issues/70

Best regards,
Cory

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Santiago Serebrinsky <
sserebrinsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
>
> I have currently two versions of Paraview:
> 1. Paraview 5.0.1, installed with apt-get. It is using Python 2.7.12.
> 2. ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit, simply expanded. It uses
> Python 2.7.11.
>
> When I use version 2 of pvpython (~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-
> OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/pvpython) I get the error
>
>     import readline
> ImportError: No module named readline
>
> from my ~/.pythonrc.
>
> In version 1 of pvpython, readline resides in
> /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
> >>> readline.__file__
> '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/readline.x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
> .
> In version 2 readline is not present anywhere in ~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-
> OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/
>
> Why is this?
> Can it be fixed?
>
> PS: directory ~/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
> (where I expected to find readline given version 1) is empty.
> Many of the modules which in version 1 reside in /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload,
> are present in lib/python2.7, not in lib/python2.7/lib-dynload, in version2:
>
> >>> import parser
> >>> parser.__file__
> '/home/santiago/apps/ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-
> 64bit/lib/python2.7/parser.so'
>
> But readline is an exception here.
>
>
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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