Ah, no, I can't import it.

What does this mean? As far as I know, I built Python as instructed.


Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jan 24 2009, 16:08:37)
[GCC 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from random import Random as _Random
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/random.py", line 871, in <module>
     _inst = Random()
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/random.py", line 96, in __init__
     self.seed(x)
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/random.py", line 115, in seed
     super(Random, self).seed(a)
SystemError: error return without exception set

Nat


On Jan 24, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:34, Nat Wilson <njwilso...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Would anyone be willing to help me interpret an error while trying to
>> build and install Numpy? I've searched around, and haven't seen this
>> elsewhere.
>
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
>> python2.6/tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
>>     from random import Random as _Random
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
>> python2.6/random.py", line 871, in <module>
>>     _inst = Random()
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
>> python2.6/random.py", line 96, in __init__
>>     self.seed(x)
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
>> python2.6/random.py", line 115, in seed
>>     super(Random, self).seed(a)
>> SystemError: error return without exception set
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> It looks unrelated to numpy. Can you import the random module in other
> situations?
>
> -- 
> Robert Kern
>
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> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
> though it had an underlying truth."
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