On 09/30/2012 08:35 PM, Peter Farrell wrote: You top-posted, which means there's no context; the message is now out of order. Please put your responses after the parts you're quoting, or don't bother quoting.
> Thanks for trying to help, everybody. Sorry I didn't post the whole error > message. Now my problem is I just installed VPython and I'm trying to run the > very first example, bounce.py which I located. I opened it and ran it in > Idle. I got this message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Python32\Lib\site-packages\visual\examples\bounce.py", line 1, in > <module> > from visual import * > File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\__init__.py", line 1, in <module> > from .visual_all import * > File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\visual_all.py", line 1, in > <module> > from vis import version > File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\vis\__init__.py", line 3, in <module> > from .cvisual import (vector, dot, mag, mag2, norm, cross, rotate, > SystemError: initialization of cvisual raised unreported exception That's a different error message than you reported at first. If you can't even run an example supplied with the system, you'd better post a question on the vpython forum (I presume it's available from http://vpython.wikidot.com/system:join) Presumably the install program is broken. Or maybe you just can't run visual from IDLE. Try running from the terminal prompt. I'm amazed that it uses the form: from visual_all import * That's considered bad form. Still, it's probably not the problem. What happens if you write a two line program: import visual_all print("Import succeeded") > I'm not a programmer, just a math teacher/tutor who's trying to teach my > students to understand math through using something real like Python. I'll > keep you posted on my progress. > > Thank you in advance for your help! > > -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
