Re: [Visualpython-users] What is IDLE?

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:54:34PM -0500, Andrew Morrison wrote:
> 
> Uncelievable!  I went back and re-read your other suggestions from the
> previous thread.  After looking around on rpmfind, I could on lyfind the
> libstdc++ for RedHat7.0.   I'm using RH6.2, but I decided to install
> anyway.  Then, the visual python rpm actually installed cleanly!  So,
> thanks for you help on that.

:)

> 
> Now, I'm still left with my other question about IDLE.  If IDLE is just
> the programming environment, I am guessing it is not included with the
> visual python rpm.  I went to python.org and saw I could download
> IDLE.  But, if I get that installed will it automatically use the visual
> modules?

Um, that's not our IDLE, that's Guido's IDLE. You're welcome to use it -- it
will work for any python program just fine, including Visual programs. But
it will have the same problem as Guido's IDLE on Windows -- programs are run
in the same thread, so if the program crashes/hangs, so does the IDE.

Most Unix people already have their own favorite text editors
(nedit/vi/emacs/SciTE/whatever) so we don't usually hear opinions on that as
it relates to VPython.

> 
> Also, I've tried running some of the demo programs.  Here's the output:
> 
> [morris@domra Demos]$ python1.5 orbit.py 
> Visual-2000-11-26
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "orbit.py", line 1, in ?
>     from visual import *
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/visual/__init__.py", line 12, in ?
>     from Numeric import *
> ImportError: No module named Numeric
> 
> 
> Do I need to get a Numeric module?   

Yeah, sorry.

That's a runtime dependency of the Visual module, so it doesn't yell at you
on install (it just fails to run). fun.

I think the package you want is python-numpy. I see it on rpmfind.




Good luck,


Ari