On 12/5/10 6:18 PM, James Thiele wrote:
You might want to look into 'virtualenv', which sets up a self contained
python install.
Hey people, does virtualenv work on XP?
yes.
And it may be a good idea, but it's not directly the OP's problem:
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:56 PM, James Fort <[email protected]
I've recently run into a Python issue. I hope that posting a
question here is appropriate.
of course, though a broader audience might be useful if we can't help!
My company's software is distributed with a special Python build
that includes some custom packages.
Where is that Python build installed? I sure hope it's not in the
"standard" place -- i.e. where the python.org install goes -- it's
really annoying when folks somehow assume that their software is the
only thing that's going to use Python.
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.
But in any case -- you should be able to have multiple installs.
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)
is "special" something that your company's software provides?
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.
OK -- that's weird -- that certainly should run scriptName.py. Are you
sure that you are getting the regular build you installed? You might try
doing something like:
import sys
print sys.path
it will give you an idea what python is running.
what do you get when you type:
"python -h"
at the command line? It shoudl give you python's help message.
-Chris
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