PySol not working on WinXP, SP2

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

James Carroll wrote:
> 
> You might try finding the source to pysol, and you might notice that
> you have a bunch of *.py files and for each of those, a corresponding
> .pyc file.  If you delete all the pyc files, then they'll get
> re-created from the .py files, and you might be all set.
> 

Nope.  The pyc files don't match the py files, and he imports the pyc
files directly.  That's what 'imp.load_compiled("__main__",
sys.argv[0])' means.  The windows version that Markus shipped never
included the .py files anyway, since he didn't need them.

Getting the source and trying to run it directly would work if there
were any doc help at all, but there's none.  What little there is is
aimed at Linux.  Makefiles need to be constructed, & there are templates
that get filled out automatically.  

I can get it working eventually, I suppose, but I was really hoping
someone else had done the work already, or at least had pointers to docs
on how to get it working.

Metta,
Ivan

> -Jim
> 
> On 6/1/05, Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at pauahtun.org> wrote:
> > Hi All--
> > I've been using PySol-4.40 for years, because that was the last Windows
> > installer version I could find.  My wife's been using it for almost the
> > same length of time.  That version's worked just fine on W98, W98SE, W2K
> > (server included), and WinXP SP1.
> >
> > I upgraded to SP2 and pysol fails silently.  Running 'python pysol.pyw'
> > gives me this error:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >
> >   File "pysol.pyw", line 64, in ?
> >
> >         imp.load_compiled("__main__", sys.argv[0])
> >
> > ImportError: Bad magic number in C:\Program
> > Files\PySol-4.40\data\pysol.pyc
> >
> > I can't find any later version on google, although I turned up a thread
> > on this list regarding running pysol in a later version on W98.  I also
> > found http://avitous.net/software/pysol-windows/py23.shtml but the
> > version he has REQUIRES ActiveState python 2.2, even though he says he's
> > put together a version for 2.3--and of course, I'm running Python 2.4.
> >
> > My wife's going to be force to upgrade to SP2 some of these days, and
> > she won't be happy if her solitaire doesn't work.  Does anyone have a
> > working version?  Anyone know what happened to Markus ... Oberhumer?
> >
> > Metta,
> > Ivan
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Ivan Van Laningham
> > God N Locomotive Works
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> >
> >

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Ivan Van Laningham
God N Locomotive Works
http://www.pauahtun.org/
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
Army Signal Corps:  Cu Chi, Class of '70
Author:  Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours