pychess fails to start if the PYTHONPATH is reset.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. export PYTHONPATH=""
2. run pychess

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

pychess fails with the following error message:

$ pychess
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pychess", line 37, in ?
    import pychess.Main
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 14, in ?
    from pychess.Players.Human import Human
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/Players/Human.py", line 7,
in ?
    from pychess.widgets.gamewidget import cur_gmwidg
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/widgets/gamewidget.py",
line 61, in ?
    from BoardControl import BoardControl
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/widgets/BoardControl.py",
line 13, in ?
    from BoardView import BoardView, rect
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/widgets/BoardView.py",
line 19, in ?
    import preferencesDialog
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/widgets/preferencesDialog.py",
line 8, in ?
    from pychess.Players.engineNest import discoverer
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/Players/engineNest.py",
line 404, in ?
    discoverer.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pychess/Players/engineNest.py",
line 272, in start
    md5sum = md5.new(open(file).read()).hexdigest()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/home/ondra/pychess/Players/PyChess.py'

Did you use an installed version of PyChess or did you run in from a
tarball/svn?

I am using the Debian package version 0.8~beta2

Here is the link to the Debian bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455890

Original issue reported on code.google.com by varunhir...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2007 at 6:33

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Oops. The PYTHONPATH thing was really only meant to be used for trunk testing ($
PYTHONPATH=lib/ ./pychess) but in rev. 792 the entire _findPath should be nicely
improved, and the bug should be fixed.

Original comment by lobais on 13 Dec 2007 at 8:42

• Added labels: Milestone-Release0.8, Priority-High
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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Original comment by lobais on 21 Dec 2007 at 1:39

• Changed state: Fixed