Error using @pyimport on Ubuntu 13.04 using python 2.7.4

[simonp0420]

@pyimport is not able to find libpython2.7.so:

simonp@ubuntu:~$ julia
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julia> using PyCall

julia> @pyimport math
ERROR: could not load module libpython2.7.so: libpython2.7.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 in pyinitialize at /home/simonp/.julia/PyCall/src/PyCall.jl:320
 in pyimport at /home/simonp/.julia/PyCall/src/PyCall.jl:105
...

I looked around for similarly named libraries and found the following:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1
/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so
/usr/share/doc/libpython2.7-minimal
/usr/share/doc/libpython2.7-stdlib
/usr/share/doc/libpython2.7
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libpython2.7-minimal
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libpython2.7-stdlib
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libpython2.7
...

Any suggestions? I've used mostly Windows in the past, so I'm not sure what to do at this point.

Thanks,
Peter

[stevengj]

Maybe install the python2.7-dev package?

Or manually run pyinitialize("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1"). It is annoying that it is so difficult to automatically detect the name of the Python library...

[simonp0420]

Installing the python-dev package did the trick! Thanks for the quick response and awesome package.

While trying the plotting example supplied in your documentation, I found that pylab.show() blocks execution of julia until the plot window is closed. I tried using the code you provided in Issue 21, but got the following error

julia> wx_eventloop()
ERROR: PyError (PyImport_ImportModule) <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>
ImportError('No module named wx',)

Is there a solution to allowing plots to be non-blocking?

Thanks,
Peter

[simonp0420]

Sorry, accidentally hit the "Close&Comment" button.

[stevengj]

Probably you don't have the wxWindows package installed and are using the GTK interface with pylab. I have a GTK event loop, too, but the wx one works better and I would tend to recommend installing wx. Please continue discussion in #21.