Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Strange behaviour of example 'variable-config.grc'

[John Coppens]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:51:50 -0500
Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:

> John,
> Where are you running GRC from? And are you trying to run this inside GRC
> or on the command line after you generate the .py file?

I call gnuradio-companion from a terminal window (That's where the
error messages come from)

> I'm assuming your examples directory you are reading from is writable? I
> ask because the default install is into /usr/local and becomes read-only;
> the generated .py file is placed in /tmp. I just tried this in the
> read-only environment on my machine and both executing inside GRC worked as
> well as from the command-line (in /tmp).

Yes, it is writeable. I did install with default paths, so it is all
in /usr/local, but I ran the demo from the original source tree. To
discard any permission problems, I tried to run as root too.

> Is there anything else in your directory that could be causing a name
> collision during the Python imports?
> 
> Tom

No idea - in the demo directory, only the three examples are present.

>From the error message, it seems as if the word 'True' is causing
problems. I cannot image any reason for that.

John