On 2010-09-27, at 4:30 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 9/27/10 6:01 PM, John Machin wrote: >> I am trying to help a user of my xlrd package who says he is getting >> anomalous >> results on his "work computer" but not on his "home computer". >> >> Attempts to reproduce his alleged problem in a verifiable manner on his "work >> computer" have failed, so far ... the only meaning difference in script >> output >> is in sys.version >> >> User (work): sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82500, Aug 23 2010, 17:18:21) etc >> Me : sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) etc >> >> I have just now downloaded the Windows x86 msi from www.python.org and >> reinstalled it on another computer. It gives the same result as on my primary >> computer (above). >> >> User result looks whacked: lower patch number, later date. www.python.org >> says >> "Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010." >> >> Is it possible that the "work computer" is using an unofficial release? What >> other possibilities are there? > > ActivePython 2.7.0.2 was released on Aug 25: > > http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/releases/2.7.0.2/
John, If it is ActivePython, the first line of the interactive shell (in credits section) should print something like: ActivePython 2.7.0.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) Also what is the output of "python -m activestate"? -srid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
