> Okay, mystery solved.  A bogus PYTHONHOME environment variable
> was defined.
>
> (I had installed an application that used python on a removable drive.
> I was one of those download and run a small web-installer application,
> so I never really knew what the install process entailed.  It defined
> PYTHONHOME pointing to the generally absent removable drive, a
> detail I hadn't noticed.
>
> Why not just "download this file and unzip it into a directory of your
> choice, and define the following environment variable to point to that
> directory"?  You know, kind of like mingw-w64 does...)
>
> Anyway, I removed (renamed, actually) the PYTHONHOME variable,
> and now gdb works just fine.  Although having gdb break because of
> the bad PYTHONHOME variable does seem a little fragile.
>
>

Have you had a chance to play with http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvand
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

Jon

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