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Can only import select as root?

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:34:23PM -0500, Lester I. McCann wrote:
| I'm new to Python, just installed Python 2.1 from the source RPMs, and
| tried to run a program.  It runs from root, but fails when run from a
| normal user account.  I reduced the problem to something easily
| demonstrated:
| 
|   >>> import select
|   Traceback (most recent call last):
|     File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
|   ImportError: No module named select
|   >>> 

What are the permissions on that module?  Try 

$ ls -l /usr/lib/python-2.1/Lib/select.py*

(or wherever it actually is)

If the user isn't allowed to read the file, then the module can't be
imported.

HTH,
-D

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