Q:

No module named thrift in Python script

I've installed Thrift on my Mac using Homebrew: brew install thrift --with-python
That did some work and finished w/o errors reported.  I have thrift on my path.
I write a simple python client from a tutorial: (there is some python thrift code in gen-py)
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
sys.path.append("./gen-py")

from thrift import Thrift
from thrift.transport import TSocket
from thrift.transport import TTransport
from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol

# rest of program...

When run I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./hey.py", line 8, in <module>
    from thrift import Thrift
ImportError: No module named thrift

Did I installed python correctly using Homebrew?  Is there a way I can verify the python/thrift integration is installed properly?

A:

Turns out the (current at time of this writing) Homebrew recipe for Thrift installation doesn't fully install everything for python, specifically the libraries.  (It does successfully install the thrift command-line tools.)
I fixed this by downloading the python distribution and building it on my Mac--but not installing since I'd already done a brew install.  I just wanted the python libs. 
I followed advice here: http://thrift-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage-example.html
I ran "sudo python setup.py install" as described and this correctly (apparently) installed the needed libs and things worked after that.

