ImportError: No module named direct.gui.DirectGUI

Installation
1

I just installed the RPM onto Fedora Core 3, and ran some of the tutorials. Most I’ve tried worked so far, except the chessboard tutorial. It gives me:

[mike@pc-00069 Feature-Tutorials–Picking]$ python Tut-Chessboard.py
DirectStart: Starting the game.
enumerate is already present in builtin
Warning: DirectNotify: category ‘Interval’ already exists
Known pipe types:
glxGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)
:audio(error): Fmod initialization failure.
:audio(error): Fmod initialization failure.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “Tut-Chessboard.py”, line 13, in ?
from direct.gui.DirectGUI import *
File “/usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py”, line 399, in import_module
m = self.load_tail(q, tail)
File “/usr/lib/python2.3/ihooks.py”, line 452, in load_tail
raise ImportError, "No module named " + mname
ImportError: No module named direct.gui.DirectGUI

Did I forget to do something?

Thanks!

2

Nope, looks like a genuine bug, that wasn’t detected on Windows.

The name of the module is actually direct.gui.DirectGui–the case appears to be incorrect in the tutorial. In Windows’ case-insensitive filesystem, the program runs anyway, and the incorrect case goes unnoticed.

We’ll make sure the problem is fixed here; in the meantime, you can run the tutorial by editing the file and correcting the error.

David

3

Oops, didn’t really check those on Linux. I’ll have it corrected for the next update. Feel free to report any more problems you find.

4

Oops! :slight_smile:

I’ll try, but my hard disk decided to play up again last night, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to stick to using Linux. I may have to switch back to Windows.

Anyway, thanks for the replies.