On 23 November 2010 03:02, John Smith <jocj...@verizon.net> wrote: > I _assume_ the source is the one that is a tar.gz thingy. Since Windows > will not handle the unpacking of that, I have to install a > decompressor/unpacker to do it. Then I can finally get around to installing > the serial package. Maybe. Unless I run into a similar problem because of > Win 7 or because pyserial is 32-bit. > > I think it is better that I stop now before I install a bunch of extra > applications that I need only to install one or two Python modules. > > I like Python itself. Very powerful. But I guess I'll look for some other > language which provides the features I need without the hassle. Thanks again > for your help. >
Without wanting to be rude: Maybe you shouldn't *assume* anything about something you apparently know little about and jump to conclusions so quickly, and rather ask some pertinent questions. You know what they say about "assume", it makes an "ass" out of "u" an "me". Firstly, .tar.gz is more or less the standard archive format for Unix and Linux based systems (actually it's an archive that's then subsequently compressed but I digress.) It's hardly esoteric these days, and there's numerous archivers that will deal with this format for you on Windows. It's a 1 minute problem, literally, to deal with. My favourite on Windows is IZArc, here: http://www.izarc.org/ Frankly I don't understand why dealing with this is seen as a lot of hassle or why you're afraid of this cluttering up your system due to a simple (to you unknown new) file format problem, and why you assume that implies you'll have 32/64 bit problems as well. In any case for the record, Python source, especially cross-platform source, will often be distributed as .tar.gz and oftentimes its actually preferred to use the source if possible, there's no need to be worried about this or to fear it in any way. Furthermore, let me point out that you could even have dealt with this file with for Python itself , e.g: > import gzip > import StringIO > import tarfile > > tardata = gzip.open('c:/pyserial-2.5.tar.gz', 'rb').read() > tardataIO = StringIO.StringIO(tardata) > tf = tarfile.TarFile(fileobj=tardataIO) > tf.extractall('c:/temp') > That will uncompress and then extract the file using standard Python. All you then have to do is go and run "python setup.py install" from a command prompt in the extracted folder, to install it into your Python installation (which again is an action you'll get quite used to if you're used to using Python for a while and want to install from source, when you're not using even easier methods like "easy_setup" or "pip"...) Walter
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
