Python on Crays

[Craig]

Who the one from wisconsin and did you try the python group in madison maybe they can help.

Well i from madison are and i just a newbie with python.What OS you useing?

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Python on Crays
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 1:48 PM
> On Aug 25, 11:34 pm, Carrie Farberow
> <farbe... at wisc.edu>
> wrote:
> > Ok, here are links to word documents outlining the
> commands I executed as well as the make.log file and the
> make_install.log file
> > [links snipped]
> 
> So from the output of make, it looks as though none of the
> modules specified in the Modules/Setup file is being built
> at all on your system.  So not just unicodedata, but
> the
> math, cmath, array, itertools modules and more are
> missing from your build.
> 
> You can check this by running Python:  after the make
> step
> finishes, you should have a working Python executable
> called
> 'python' in the current directory;  if you start it up
> and
> then type 'import math' at the '>>>' prompt, I'm
> guessing
> you'll get an error message that looks something like:
> 
> ImportError: No module named math
> 
> I don't have much idea why those modules aren't being
> built;
> I tried imitating the relevant parts of your instructions
> (to the degree that they make sense on my non-Cray system)
> without any problems.
> 
> Anyway, I agree that issue1594809 doesn't look so
> relevant;
> the only common factor is that in both cases Python is
> failing to find the unicodedata module;  but in that
> issue
> the unicodedata module is present but doesn't get found
> because the paths are messed up, while in your case the
> unicodedata module isn't being built at all.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
> (1) double check that you've uncommented the appropriate
> lines
> in the Modules/Setup file.  E.g., after the configure
> step, there's
> a line in Modules/Setup that looks like:
> 
> #unicodedata unicodedata.c    # static Unicode
> character database
> 
> that leading '#' should be removed so that it looks like:
> 
> unicodedata unicodedata.c    # static Unicode
> character database
> 
> and similarly for the other modules in that section.
> Make sure that you're editing the Modules/Setup file
> *after* the configure step and *before* the make step.
> 
> (2) Find a local Unix/Python guru and ask him/her to
> help out.  These sorts of problems are generally much
> easier to figure out when you've got direct access to
> the machine.
> 
> Sorry I can't be more help than this.
> 
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