Re: OfflineIMAP and Python

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

>>> ImportError: 
>>> /gnu/store/zla3af321lkf2n80330fw81mxgbz1gj3-python-2.7.6/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/operator.so:
>>>  undefined symbol: _PyUnicodeUCS2_AsDefaultEncodedString
>>
>> This usually happens when you use the wrong python.
>
> The ‘python’ executable is necessarily the right one, because it’s
> written in the shebang, and this operator.so is the right one too.

True.  The reason why it happens in my setup is that my ~/.offlineimaprc
contains the settings:

    [general]
    pythonfile = ~/.offlineimap.py
    ...

This Python script has a shebang "#!/usr/bin/env python", so when
offlineimap runs the script the wrong python executable might be
loaded (dependent on PATH).

(I realise that this probably isn't a common setup, so my suggestion to
check the python executable wasn't very helpful.)

~~ Ricardo