Thanks. I took a look at active state once. Too much of a learning
curve for me at the time. I'm not a frequent user of Python. I was on
a small project that depended on 2.5.2. There were some issues with
numpy, and other libs that needed to stay put. Project is pretty well
gone. If not, I'm going to declare it dead.
I think I'm done here with 2.5.2. I think it's time to move to 2.6 or
2.7. Now!
On 11/15/2011 4:33 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 15/11/11 23:55, Wayne Watson wrote:
I think we've exhausted ourselves. Time to ditch 2.5.2 and find a better
version of Python to work on.
There is nothiong wrong with Python 2.5.2, I used it for several years
on Windows. But the default installation should not be setting up idle
as the interpreter for .py files.
However it would make more sense in 2011 to install a more recent
version unless you specifically need 2.5 to work sith some old
library. Otherwise 2.6 or 2.7 would be more senmsioble.
Also if you are on Windows I strongly recommend the ActiveState version.
Open Source purists may object but its integration with Windows is
better and Pythonwin is a much better IDE than IDLE in almost every
respect.
I started this very simply. I just installed 2.5.2, as we know both
know, and made no changes to any associations. The install made them,
not me.
It sounds like the install maybe got messed up somehow, I've
experienced that with python before. It's possible that simply
uninstalling and reinstalling a fresh version will work.
But as mentioned I'd recommend getting the ActiveState
distribution.
HTH,
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