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16 Apr 2024 03:48:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Unable to import povray in python  
From: Doctor John
Date: 7 Nov 2014 16:36:49
Message: <545d3b71$1@news.povray.org>
On 07/11/14 13:14, Florent wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The program I use to model particle interactions provides visualization through
> povray. Despite my best attempts, I can' import povray into python 2.7.8 on
> Ubuntu 14.10:
> 
> $  python
> Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 20 2014, 15:05:29)
> [GCC 4.9.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import povray
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named povray
>>>>
> 
> 
> I first tried using the prepackaged version from apt-get, then uninstalled it
> and manually compiled the github library. Same non-result, but povray seems to
> be installed just fine.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated !
> Florent
> 
> 

I'm not going to say RTFM, but bear in mind that subprocess and os are
modules that will help you.

So:
import subprocess, os
			will help

Without further details I can't really help more.

John
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