Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread bhaaluu
Greetings, On 11/3/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point, I think that goes for learning a programming language in general > ;) Find one that works, and master it... > > I'm starting to put together the picture of what a Python installation is, > but I have to admit, when you work on mu

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread bhaaluu
apt-get install python2.4 That's it! (On a Debian-based install) -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m http://www.geocities.com/ek.bhaaluu/index.html On 11/2/07, sith . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > I'm a beginner. Can someone help me with the installation? I've read > several tutorials

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread John
Good point, I think that goes for learning a programming language in general ;) Find one that works, and master it... I'm starting to put together the picture of what a Python installation is, but I have to admit, when you work on multiple machines regularly, it is a bit challenging. Especially w

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread sith .
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Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"sith ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > For example, here is the traceback for a simple file I made and > tried to run in IDLE: > # test.py > x = 1 + 1 > print x > In IDLE, I tried to run it by typing test.py That's the problem. You cannot run Python scripts in IDLE by calling them like that.

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
Hi, Thanks for your input. I'm presently downloading enthought python - no asian mirror, so it'll take a really long time to download even on broadband at 10kbps) - but I don't think it's a distro problem. I'm probably not doing it right as I'm now using IDLE and still have the same problem.

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > How did you install Python? On Windoze I use the ActiveState version and then manually set the PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables > Active state releases a good version as well... and thus, welcome, > to what > in my humble opinion (a newbie as well) is

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread John
How did you install Python? I've found that the Enthought distribution to be the simplest and quickest way to get up and running while having good functionality (i.e. scipy up and running). Active state releases a good version as well... and thus, welcome, to what in my humble opinion (a newbie as

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"sith ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > However, when I try to run the program, which is stored > in pthon25/work using IDLE, I get a traceback error. Cannyou send us the error, that helps a lot in trying to debug. Cut n paste the entire error text. > I can run the program in dos though and it

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
hi, I'm a beginner. Can someone help me with the installation? I've read several tutorials, possess a couple of books, and have followed the instructions, but I stil face a problem. None of the online tutorials address this issue in depth maybe because it could be too simple. I'm having proble