Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-20 Thread Kent Johnson
LandSurveyor wrote: > If I could be so bold...as to return for a moment to my long since buried > question: What happened to the once pleasant relation between Python & > digraphs. Given that digraphs are a form offered by Vim (not intrinsic to > Python[?]), they worked when I was using Python

[Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-20 Thread LandSurveyor
If I could be so bold...as to return for a moment to my long since buried question: What happened to the once pleasant relation between Python & digraphs. Given that digraphs are a form offered by Vim (not intrinsic to Python[?]), they worked when I was using Python 2.3. Now, with the upgrade

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
bhaaluu wrote: > Greetings, > > On 10/15/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> > So, you use PCs with MS-Windows, and Mac,... really, when was the > last time you took a look at GNU/Linux? My suggestion: Look up > a Linux User Group (LUG) in your loca

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Kent Johnson
bhaaluu wrote: > On 10/15/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >>> Why people even give MS any mind-share is beyond me > > No, I think that GNU/Linux is now way beyond 'hobbyist environment'. OK, I think that is enough Linux/Windows/Mac advocacy

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread bhaaluu
Greetings, On 10/15/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Why people even give MS any mind-share is beyond me > > For the same reason most people don't buy kit cars. > Linux is a great hobbyist environment and if you want your > OS to be a hobb

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Kent Johnson
LandSurveyor wrote: > Some interesting (!?) things happened when I upgraded from Python 2.3 > to Python 2.5.1. My editor of choice is Vim, the platform is > MandrakeLinux 10.1... > > * the digraphs I have incorporated from the Vim environment into my > scripts no longer work. The re

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Why people even give MS any mind-share is beyond me For the same reason most people don't buy kit cars. Linux is a great hobbyist environment and if you want your OS to be a hobby then use Linux you will learn a lot about your computers. But if you jus

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"LandSurveyor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a.. the digraphs I have incorporated from the Vim environment > into my scripts no longer work. Can you show us an example? > b.. Within my code, I have two adjacent 'try/except' sequences. Again can you show us the actual code segment? Its ha

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"LandSurveyor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > had never used a link before. Didn't know why I would want to. Links are super cool, you can do lots with them, just beware of circular references or things like tar or cp -r will go into endless loops! > and got as far as 'make', when it required me

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-14 Thread bhaaluu
On 10/14/07, LandSurveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Long and the short of it, the 'make' and 'make install' continued in the > /usr/bin environ (i.e., departed from my '/home' directories). I did not at > first 'rm' the /usr/bin/python file-was too nervous to try it! What I did, > though wa

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-14 Thread LandSurveyor
 Some interesting (!?) things happened when I upgraded from Python 2.3 to Python 2.5.1.  My editor of choice is Vim, the platform is MandrakeLinux 10.1...the digraphs I have incorporated from the Vim environment into my scripts no longer work.  The resultant error message referred me to pep-0263Wit

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-14 Thread LandSurveyor
ks for all the help. BTW, I think-with this post-I've figured out how to correctly reply within this tutor envronment. I THINK!? -----Original Message- >From: bhaaluu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 13, 2007 5:47 PM >To: LandSurveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: tuto

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-13 Thread bhaaluu
Greetings, On my system I can have several python versions installed because they install as python2.3, python2.4, etc. $ which python /usr/bin/python $ ls -l /usr/bin/python ... /usr/bin/python -> python2.4 Here, we can see that "python" is just a link to /usr/bin/python2.4 So, I can install pyt

Re: [Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-13 Thread David Millar
Hi there, I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but I use Ubuntu Linux and my package manager does updates for me. It looks like Madrake has a package manager called urpmi according to Wikipedia - have you tried using that to install a new RPM package for Python 2.5.1 or simply trying to have it automat

[Tutor] upgrading Python

2007-10-13 Thread LandSurveyor
I wish to upgrade Python from the [Vers.] 2.3.4 that came packaged with my Mandrake 10.1 Linux OS to the current 2.5.1. The 'hash/bang' line of my python scripts is "#!/usr/bin/python". There are two files, both executables, in my /usr/bin directory; they are 1)python, and 2)python2.3. I just