[chitemez]

Can someone help plse Am in my very early stages second day of learning this language trying to import wx but keep getting an error No module named 'wx'? the problem is I do not know how to enter a pathname that places wxPython on the PythonPath. plse help

[b49P23TIvg]

You'd need to know the location of this "wx" module. There could be a directory containing the file __init__.py
Or there might be a file called wx.py
Or some other possibilities.

If P is the path to that directory's parent,

import sys
sys.path.append(P)


where P is a string.
If you're on a windows system the latter statement will probably look like

sys.path.append(r'c:\some\path')


If on a unix like system without weird characters in the path the latter statement will look more like

sys.path.append('/usr/local/python3.2/lib/some/path')

Or on unix

$ PYTHONPATH=/some/path:$PYTHONPATH python3

and you could put PYTHONPATH into your shell startup script.

[chitemez]

[Being in my early stages everything is still very difficult for me to understand or know what really needs to be done. I am using windows Vista so could you someone plse put out for me how I will conqure this prolem of importing wxpython. Am still getting the same error no module named 'wx'. I seem not to know exactly how to create a path name that will solve my problem.
Plse help am really stuck.

[b49P23TIvg]

wxpython is some sort of GUI builder?

I encourage you to learn how to use python---how to use the various data container objects and their purpose, and get a feel for the syntax before continuing with a major project.

[Dietrich]

What version of Python are you using?

For Python27 you can download the Window installer
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.12.1-py27.exe

Run the .exe file and it will install the wx package for instance into folder

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.9.1-msw\wx

Python will find folder wx now.

[chitemez]

I would like to thank you very much for your Advice .It worked and You have actually changed my life fro now on .Many thanks Again Wonderful Advice for ever greatful.

[Dietrich]

Alright! Now you can test this code ...

import wx
import wx.lib.filebrowsebutton

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, mytitle, mysize):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, wx.ID_ANY, mytitle, 
            size=mysize)
        self.SetBackgroundColour("green")
        panel = wx.Panel(self)

        # this file browser masked to look for .wav sound files 
        self.fbb = wx.lib.filebrowsebutton.FileBrowseButton(panel,
            labelText="Select a WAVE file:", fileMask="*.wav")
        play_button = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, ">>  Play")
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onPlay, play_button)

        # setup the layout with sizers
        hsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
        hsizer.Add(self.fbb, 1, wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL)
        hsizer.Add(play_button, 0, wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL)
        
        # create a border space
        border = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        border.Add(hsizer, 0, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL, 10)
        panel.SetSizer(border)

    def onPlay(self, evt):
        filename = self.fbb.GetValue()
        self.sound = wx.Sound(filename)
        # error handling ...
        if self.sound.IsOk():
            self.sound.Play(wx.SOUND_ASYNC)
        else:
            wx.MessageBox("Missing or invalid sound file", "Error")


app = wx.App()
# create a MyFrame instance and show the frame
mytitle = "wx.lib.filebrowsebutton.FileBrowseButton and wx.Sound"
width = 600
height = 90
MyFrame(None, mytitle, (width, height)).Show()
app.MainLoop()