visualpython-users

[Visualpython-users] VPython and Python 2.4

[<Kev...@ca...>]

I ran into an error running VPython-MSWindows_3.0.2.exe with Python-2.4.msi
It wanted python23.dll and couldn't find it.
The DLL has been renamed in Python 2.4 to python24.dll.
I went back to Python 2.3.4 so that I could use VPython.
When I went back to Python 2.3.4, installing Vpython put files in
C:\Python24, so I had to go into the registry and remove obsolete entries.

Any suggestions on how to move to Python 2.4?
Did I install incorrectly?  I went from 2.3.4+3.0.2 to 2.4+3.0.2 and back
to 2.3.4+3.0.2.
I'd really like to stay current.
I could try going into the VPython binaries and change references of
python23 to python24, but I hate to do this.

Regards,
          Kevin   x57048

Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython and Python 2.4

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 12:58 -0800, Kev...@ca... wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I ran into an error running VPython-MSWindows_3.0.2.exe with Python-2.4.msi
> It wanted python23.dll and couldn't find it.
> The DLL has been renamed in Python 2.4 to python24.dll.
> I went back to Python 2.3.4 so that I could use VPython.
> When I went back to Python 2.3.4, installing Vpython put files in
> C:\Python24, so I had to go into the registry and remove obsolete entries.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to move to Python 2.4?
> Did I install incorrectly?  I went from 2.3.4+3.0.2 to 2.4+3.0.2 and back
> to 2.3.4+3.0.2.
> I'd really like to stay current.
> I could try going into the VPython binaries and change references of
> python23 to python24, but I hate to do this.
> 
> Regards,
>           Kevin   x57048

VPython will have to be rebuilt from source for Python 2.4.  I would be
able to provide a build sometime in the middle of next week, since I am
in the middle of semester exams right now.

-Jonathan

Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython and Python 2.4

[Jon S. <js...@so...>]

Although I can run vpython programs under python (osx 10.3.6), I cannot 
run vpython.

I get this error:

208-186-56-189:~ jis$ vpython
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/run.py", line 7, in ?
     import threading
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 13, in ?
     from traceback import print_exc as _print_exc
ImportError: cannot import name print_exc

[at this point I must type ctrl-c]

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle", line 21, in ?
     PyShell.main()
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1287, in main
     flist.pyshell = PyShell(flist)
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 769, in __init__
     self.interp.start_subprocess()
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 362, in 
start_subprocess
     self.rpcclt.accept()
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/rpc.py", line 526, in accept
     working_sock, address = self.listening_sock.accept()
   File "/sw/lib/python2.3/socket.py", line 167, in accept
     sock, addr = self._sock.accept()
KeyboardInterrupt


208-186-56-189:~ jis$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Nov  7 2004, 14:21:14)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

I'd welcome suggestions.   (and will continue to hope that someone will 
roll vpython into a mcEnthon package)

thanks



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Associate Professor
Information Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Rochester, New York 14623
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Re: [Visualpython-users] Idle problems on OSX (Was: VPython and Python 2.4)

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 23:46 -0500, Jon Schull wrote:
> Although I can run vpython programs under python (osx 10.3.6), I cannot 
> run vpython.
> 
> I get this error:

Since this is a problem with Idle, you should be asking the Idle
developers about it.  The "vpython" script is nothing more than a
forwarding shell script that starts up the stock Idle for Python 2.3.

-Jonathan