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On 11/15/2012 1:48 PM, Eric Frederich wrote:
> Thanks for the idea.
> sys.path was the same before and after the login

Too bad. That seems to be a typical cause of import failure.

> What else should I be checking?

No idea. You are working beyond my knowledge. But I might either look at 
the foo-login code carefully, or disable (comment out) parts of it to 
see what makes the import fail.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy