PyEdit in Programming Python 2nd ed

[Laura Lewin]

Hi,
I just wanted to make sure you are running Launch_PyDemos.pyw, not 
PyDemos.pyw.  If you are running PyDemos.pyw directly without setting up 
PYTHONPATH, this may explain the problem.
 
The first of these (Launch_PyDemos) auto-configures the environment for 
spawning book demos, and starts PyDemos.  The second (PyDemos itself) 
assumes 
that the environment has already been configured, either manually, or by the 
top-level Launch_PyDemos layer.
 
That's why PyEdit (and a few others demos run from PyDemos that depend on 
the 
module search path) will not work from PyDemos, unless you've done manual 
environment configuration, or started PyDemos indirectly by running 
Launch_PyDemos.  Both of these scripts are described in the Preface.

If this doesn't take care of the problem, let me know, there are some other 
things we can do.

Laura
LLewin at oreilly.com

>===== Original Message From "Fiel Cabral" <fscabral at bellsouth.net> =====
>This is about one of the example programs in Programming Python 2nd ed.
>I just bought the book and while I was trying its Demo Launcher script, I
>found that I
>couldn't start the PyEdit script by clicking on its button. I'm running
>ActiveState python 2.1
>on my Win98SE machine. Has anyone encountered this problem before? PyEdit
>should
>work on Win98SE and with ActiveState python 2.1.
>
>