pygments existence about frog HOT 4 CLOSED

See pygments.rkt: We do (process "python -u /path/to/pipe.py") and wait 1 second. If for any reason the process isn't still running, we can't use pygments.

The process might no longer be running for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to:

• The system can't find Python.
• Python can't find Frog's pipe.py.
• Python can't find the Pygments libraries pipe.py imports. Because:
  • Pygments isn't installed?
  • It's installed, but not in a way that its libraries are available to Python programs? (Analogous to not raco link-ing a collection in Racket?)

The error message says the last of these because it seems the most likely reason.

One thing you could try is to run a one-liner Python program:

echo 'from pygments import highlight' | python

Does that work silently, or give an error like:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pygments

?

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I ran that one-liner, and I got this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pygments

Aww, that's sad, because I used to have it working. :-(
I have also verified from my system package management
system that I do have pygments installed, and that I can
call the pygmentize, too from the command-line.

It may be due to the fact that the filesystem organization
of my OS is not the "usual" one.

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Although I only found it from searching (I've never used it), it seems like this from the Python docs might help you: The Module Search Path.

In other words if you can find the directory containing the pygments .py files (such as highlight.py) and add the directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable, it would probably work?

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I'm going to close this since I don't think it's anything I can do on my end. However please feel free to comment again here if there's anything else I can do to help.

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