Re: [pysqlite] An error in installing pysqlite

Gerhard Häring <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:22:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Garfield wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>      The install-source.txt file said to email this list if I  
> encountered errors running pysqlite2.test.test(), but didn't encounter  
> any errors during compilation or installation. So that's what I am  
> doing.
> 
> Here's the error I encountered (it says there are nine of them....but  
> they sure seem related):
> [...] 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pysqlite2/test/ 
> transactions.py", line 38, in setUp
>      self.con1 = sqlite.connect(get_db_path(), timeout=0.1)
> OperationalError: unable to open database file
> [...]

Try executing the test from somewhere else. The test suite tries to
create a database file in the working directory. And your choice of
working directory was an unfortunate one, it seems ;-)

-- Gerhard