PyControl driving me round the bend!!

Odd. It may be worth poking around a bit more to see if there's not a path issue. Could you print out your sys.path and compare it to your WSDL_CACHE dir?

Here's an example:

 
  In: import sys   
  In: sys.path   
  Out:   
   ['',   
    '/usr/bin',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ipython-0.9.1-py2.5.egg',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-linux-i686.egg',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyControl-1.3.0_beta-py2.5.egg',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ZSI-2.1_a1-py2.5.egg',   
    '/usr/lib/python25.zip',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',   
    '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',   
    '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5',   
    '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ipython-0.9.1-py2.5.egg/IPython/Extensions']   
      
   In: import pycontrol.pyControl as pc   
    
   In: pc.WSDL_CACHE   
   Out: '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyControl-1.3.0_beta-py2.5.egg/pycontrol/BIGIP_WSDL_CACHE_DIR/wsdl'   
    
 

The WSDL_CACHE attribute should point to the pyControl egg file. This should help you identify what is going on. On my debian system I had fits with path issues across multiple apt-installed python versions, so keep an eye out for something like this as well.

By the way, this points out a bug that I'll need to fix, and this is a variant of another issue posted to the forums regarding needing elevated perms to write to this directory. It would be nice to be able to set this all up and point it at a $TMP directory on a particular system.

It should be possible to manually set this attribute but it's not behaving the way I expect when I do this. I'll try and fix this up and submit a new (and overdue) pyControl egg.

-Matt