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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexei Vinidiktov <alexei.vinidik...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] import site failed (WinXP) To: Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net> 2009/1/27 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Alexei Vinidiktov > <alexei.vinidik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Since yesterday I've been having problems running Python. I've been >> getting the error "import site failed; use -v for traceback". IDLE >> won't start either. >> >> The traceback seems to sugget that Python "cannot import name aliases". >> >> I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Python and also installing a >> newer version of Python, but the problem persists even if I try >> installing Python 2.6 instead of Python 2.5.2 which I had installed >> till yesterday. >> >> I'm on Windows XP SP3. >> >> Here's the traceback: >> > >> 'import site' failed; traceback: >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\Python25\lib\site.py", line 415, in <module> >> main() >> File "C:\Python25\lib\site.py", line 406, in main >> aliasmbcs() >> File "C:\Python25\lib\site.py", line 356, in aliasmbcs >> import locale, codecs >> File "C:\Python25\lib\locale.py", line 14, in <module> >> import sys, encodings, encodings.aliases >> File "C:\Python25\lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 32, in <module> >> from encodings import aliases >> ImportError: cannot import name aliases > > That's a puzzle. When you installed Python 2.6, does it show > C:\Python26 in the paths when you try python2.6 -v ? When I try C:\Python26\python.exe -v, it does show that. > > My best guess is that somehow Python is finding the wrong > encodings\aliases.py. I can't find an aliases.py file within the encodings folder. Should it be there? Do you have a folder called encodings or a file > called aliases.py anywhere on your PYTHONPATH? I don't have a PYTHONPATH environment variable defined. Does Python work if you > start it from a different working directory? No, it doesn't seem to work properly no matter what directory I run it from. -- Alexei Vinidiktov _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
