On Aug 4, 2:35 pm, vsoler <vicente.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed python 3.1.2 where I used to have python 2.6.4. I'm > working on Win7. > > The IDLE GUI works, but I get the following message when trying to > open *.py files written for py 2.6 > > The Application cannot locate win32ui.pyd (or Python) (126) >
win32ui is part of the PyWin32 package. Most likely you have a version of PyWin32 for Python 2.6 installed, you should uninstall that and install PyWin32 for Python 3.1. Downloads are at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/ You should do the same for any other third party packages that are installed. > Moreover, when I try to open an old *.py file, I sometimes get a > message saying that the file should be converted to UTF-8. What does > this mean? Those files contain non-ascii characters (e.g. £, €, æ). Non-ascii characters must be encoded when saved using and encoding. UTF-8 is one such encoding, and it was chosen as the default .py encoding for Python 3.x. Those files are probably in iso8859, cp432, or perhaps UTF-16 (aka UCS-2). You can save them in UTF-8 using your favourite text editor, or declare the encoding so Python 3 knows it. More info: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode > I'm also trying to use the 2to3 converter, but I cannot see where the > converted files are written to! I think 2to3 prints a diff of the file changes to the console. The -w command line option should modify files in place. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list