I meant to reply sooner, but *yes* you were right. I hand-edited my tg- admin-script.py file to C:\Progra~1 and the program runs again.
Thanks! john On Mar 26, 4:15 am, "Simon King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Reposting my reply since it doesn't seem to have got through) > > This is a setuptools bug: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-January/007156.html > > You can temporarily work around it by changing the #! line at the > beginning of the tg-admin-script.py file to use DOS-style paths (eg. > replace "C:\Program Files" with "C:\Progra~1") > > I believe that if you change your windows PATH so that it uses the DOS- > style names as well, then when setuptools creates these *-script.py > entries, it will put that path at the top of them. So you could change > your PATH and then reinstall the TurboGears egg. > > Hope that helps, > > Simon > > On Mar 24, 1:50 pm, "johnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Trying tg-admin.exe from a different directory didn't work either, but > > I learned that I *can* run the python script that is installed in the > > same directory as tg-admin.exe. For example, this works: > > > --------------------- begin -------------------- > > C:\Program Files\turbogears>python "C:\Program Files\Python24\Scripts > > \tg-admin-s > > cript.py" > > > TurboGears 1.0.1 command line interface > > > Usage: C:\Program Files\Python24\Scripts\tg-admin-script.py [options] > > <command> > > ...snip... > > --------------------- end -------------------- > > > So the question is: Why can't the tg-admin.exe program find python? > > > Based on the error message ("Cannot find Python executable C:\Program > > "), my hunch is that it is stumped because the pathname contains > > whitespace. So if I had installed python in C:\Python24, for example, > > tg-admin.exe would be OK. I guess I can try that, but am I really the > > first person to have this problem? > > > john > > > On Mar 24, 2:29 am, "gasolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It looks like a namespace confliction. > > > > try 'tg-admin info' in other path, such as C:\>tg-admin info > > > > > C:\Program Files\turbogears>tg-admin info > > > > Cannot find Python executable C:\Program --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
