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Subject: Re: GAE environment differences
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 14:04:19 +0100
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On 01/05/2015 13:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:
>
>
> Best thing to do is to ask the user to post the complete traceback.
> You might need to use "import os.path" but normally I would expect
> that not to be an issue.



> jamesbynd said:
>
> here's a traceback:
>
> ```
> #!python
>
> ImportError: No module named pwd
> (12 additional frame(s) were not displayed)
> ...
>   File "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015-eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/xhtml2pdf/context.py", line 5, in <module>
>     from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle
>   File "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015-eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/lib/styles.py", line 28, in <module>
>     from reportlab.rl_config import canvas_basefontname as _baseFontName, baseUnderlineProportion as _baseUnderlineProportion
>   File "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015-eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/rl_config.py", line 131, in <mod
>  ule>
>     _startUp()
>   File "/base/data/home/apps/e~yt-maggi-2015-eu/testing.383971015313322618/vendor/reportlab/rl_config.py", line 99, in _startUp
>     d = os.path.expanduser(d)   #appengine fails with KeyError
>   File "python2.7/posixpath.py", line 268, in expanduser
>     import pwd
> ```
the user suggests that even though claims are made that you can use a 
filesystem, but stuff like pwd is missing. Apparently the user module has no 
meaning, but there is a users module? I guess I'll need to keep patching 
reportlab when GAE users find these glitches.
-- 
Robin Becker