Error installing protocol buffer on snow leopard

Question

I've just installed Google protocol buffer on my snow leopard mac. When going into the python shell

import protobuf

produces an unknown module error. I'm using the python which came with snow leopard:

/usr/bin/python

Should I specify a PYTHON_PATH variable before installation and if so what should it be?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The module is not called protobuf, but google.protobuf. In the extracted source tarball, there's an examples directory. Run make python and check out the files add_person.py,list_people.py and addressbook_pb2.py to get you started. Hope this helps!