Scripts not working...

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I’m having trouble getting some of the pyhton scripts to run in Blender 2.41

I HAVE NOT set a pythonpath on my system, is that the problem?

And a noob question, what is the the pythonpath for? I always get this message when I open Blender -

‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback

Is it because the pythonpath is not set?

Please help, my head is going to explode!!!? I’m no programmer, I know enough to get along, but this stuff is making me feel like a complete retard!!

Any and all help is appreciated!! %|

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unfortunately there were some last minute errors on some scripts - bevel_face, and one of the importers

which scripts are you having problems with?

LetterRip

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Most notably I’m trying to work with World Forge. It doesn’t work, it says theres a script error.

Then again I just checked in my Environment Variables and it doesn’t look like I have python installed because there is no path set for it!?

I just downloaded Python ver 2.4.2, but I’m not going to intall it unless someone tells me I need to.

I guess that’s the main question here, do I need it?

CoNfUSeD!? :o

PS Know where I can get a copy of the sun sky plugin?

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Plus there’s still this…

‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback

I still don’t know what that means…

Damn I’m dumb… :expressionless:

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it means you don’t have python installed, some external scripts require a full python install, I think Blender World Forge is one of them…

LetterRip

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Thanx dude.

I’ll do an install and set the path hopefully that will work, if it doesn’t I’m sure I’ll come back here to whine. j/k :stuck_out_tongue:

Appreciate the help.

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i don’t want to make any trouble, but i think, blender uses its own internal python virtual machine (a 2.3 version by the way). If this is true, you should not need to install any thing else…

sorry if i am wrong… :slight_smile:

but you can quickly try:

import sys
_myLocalDir = ‘/local/path/to/your/scripts’
try:
sys.path.index(_myLocalDir)
except ValueError:
sys.path.append(_myLocalDir)

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you are right and wrong :slight_smile:

Blender has a built in python interpreter, but it is a subset of a full python install. Some scripts require a full python install to work.

LetterRIp

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thanks for this precision :slight_smile:

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Installed Python ver2.4 and everything is working fine.

Can someone direct me to the best python tutorials (beginners stuff) -
I need to learn this.

Thanx again
Trager

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Read dive into python

http://diveintopython.org/

LetterRip

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Again with the save…

Hats off
LetterRip!!!