This worked for me...
**** On Windows, you’d probably download foo-1.0.zip. If you downloaded the archive file to C:\Temp, then it would unpack into C:\Temp\foo-1.0; you can use either a archive manipulator with a graphical user interface (such as WinZip) or a command-line tool (such as unzip or pkunzip) to unpack the archive. Then, open a command prompt window (“DOS box”), and run: cd c:\Temp\foo-1.0 python setup.py install **** http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#the-new-standard-distutils On May 16, 8:56 pm, GenghisOne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric > > I read the article you mentioned and still cannot make sense of how to > install Gdata on windows. > > The documentation says this... > > "For Windows XP, pull up the Environment Variables for your profile: > Control Panel > System Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables. > From there, you can either create or edit the PYTHONPATH variable and > add the location of your local library copy." > > Given there's no step by step instructions, I'm a bit a loss. > > When I go to "Environment Variables" I'm faced with two choices -- > User Variables and System Variables. Which one should I choose and > what should I type? In all candor, this whole windows-linux back- > slash, forward-slash, single-quote, double-quote thing is a bit of a > usability nightmare, and it would be nice to have a real-world > specific example. > > Thx much. > > On May 16, 7:11 pm, Eric Bidelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You'll need to modify your PYTHONPATH env variable to include a pointer to > > the libraries. > > This article explains how to do > > that:http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/python_client_lib.html > > > Cheers, > > Eric > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM, GenghisOne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get the gdata service working on a windows machine and > > > am getting an import error when I type in "import gdata.docs.service" > > > at the IDLE command prompt. > > > > At the risk of opening up a can of worms, what is the best way to > > > install gdata on a windows machine? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Data Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
