[Chandler-dev] rt.py and your system python version

[D John Anderson]

It would help people trying to use rt if you could detect these kind  
of problems and report an error about what they need to do to run rt  
rather than generating "odd" errors.

Better yet, if you could either make rt always work with Chandler's  
python or eliminate non-obvious failures that occur on the stock  
pythons of each of our target platforms.

John

On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> A couple of people have been bitten by this so I wanted to post a  
> note explaining what happened, why and how to fix it.
>
> rt.py when run using the stock python and not Chandler's python,  
> which is how I always demonstrate it, will generate odd import  
> errors that you may not be expecting.  The reason for this is that  
> rt.py has "#!/usr/bin/env python" at the top and for people running  
> on Intel based Macs this will reference Python 2.3.5 and since  
> rt.py now uses a number of modules that appeared starting with  
> version 2.4+, the import errors happen.
>
> To fix this you need to download the OS X install image from  
> python.org and install it - the new installer will adjust all the  
> required system environment items to make sure the new python is  
> now the default python.
>
> Others have started running into path issues with the new  
> localization check when running on WinXP with Cygwin and this is  
> because of subtle issues in the localization code that I  have  
> quick fixed.  I need to get with Brian K. to make sure my quick fix  
> has not broken something on his end.
>
> thanks and apologies if I slowed down anyone's rt.py runs
>
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