Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] installer gave problems due to installing markdown.py in /bin

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Dirk van Oosterbosch, IR labs
<la...@ix...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I updated my markdown (from an old version, when I was still running
> python 2.5 and mac 10.4) to the latest 2.0 release.
> But I ran into a problem when I tried to 'import markdown' from the
> interpreter:
>

Dirk, thanks for the detailed report. I ran into this problem the
other day [1]. Just haven't had time to fix it. It appears that the
problem relates to the way setuptools (and easy_install) installs
scripts. If you download the source and ``setup.py install`` the
problem doesn't exist AFAICT. I'd suggest removing your current
install and doing that until we can get a more permanent fix in place.

So, the fix is to rename the commandline script. The easiest choice is
to simply call it ``markdown`` (no .py) but then there's no indication
that its the python implementation. We could do ``pymarkdown``, but
I'm not crazy about that. Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm thinking that once we get this fix in, I'll release 2.0.1 as a
bug-fix release so we can avoid too many more people running into
this.

[1]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Tickets/000028

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