Re: [Pythoncard-users] anyone have problems launching from samples?

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Cliff Wells wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:49:51 -0800
> "Kevin Altis" <al...@se...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The popen call is probably the culprit since that is where the lockup
>>occurs, but I don't know enough about the internals of popen to know why.
>>
> If
> 
> Maybe he could verify it's popen() by running a sample from the interactive
> interpreter, e.g.
> 
> 
>>>>import os
>>>>os.popen("start python simpleBrowser.py")
>>>>
> <open file 'python2 simpleBrowser.py', mode 'r' at 0x80f9a80>
> 
>>>>  
>>>>
> 
> Perhaps popen() requires some updated version of some MS .dll to work.
> 
> 

When I started using Python I had all sorts of problems with popen on 
Windows98. There is a known 'problem' with the consumer Windows (95, 98, 
ME?) when trying to use popen if you have a version of Norton Antivirus 
(2 I think) running. Basically they fall over each other and the 
observed result is a big fat zero. I'd turn off NAV if you are running 
it and try again. IIRC an alternative solution is to upgrade to a later 
version of NAV.

Of course, if our user isn't running NAV them I'm stumped too as 
everything works fine on my Win98 box.

Regards,
Andy
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