Hello SeaPIG, I attended the most recent SeaPIG meeting on NumPy and thought it was great. I decided to join the mailing list as a result.
I've recently run into a Python issue. I hope that posting a question here is appropriate. Please let me know if it is not. The issue is as follows: My company's software is distributed with a special Python build that includes some custom packages. I didn't want to mess with that install so I additionally installed Python 2.6.6 on my machine (Windows XP 32-bit) for experimentation purposes. I noticed that I can run a script that I've written from a prompt with my company's distribution of Python using: >special python scriptName.py (where special is a prefix typed at the command prompt to identify this special installation of Python and not the generic 2.6.6 installation) However, if I try the same with Python 2.6.6, it simply opens the Python interpreter: >python scriptName.py Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> This makes it impossible for me to install python packages from the web using 'python setup.py install'. I read through the package installation docs and couldn't find anything. However, I'm not sure that's the appropriate place to be looking. I'm quite new to using the Python docs. Can anyone offer some insight as to why this is happening or point me to some appropriate sources of information? Thanks, James
