python b.python 8 works on XP but not on Vista?

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On Mar 6, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Isaac Gouy wrote:

> On Mar 6, 4:53 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Isaac Gouy <igo... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 6, 4:02 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Isaac Gouy <igo... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> At the command prompt:
>> 
>>>>>   python b.py 8
>>>>> works fine on both XP and Vista
>> 
>>>>>   python b.python 8
>>>>> works on XP (and Linux)
>> 
>>>>> but on Vista
>> 
>>>>>   python b.python 8
>> 
>>>>> ImportError: No module named b
>> 
>>>>> ?
>> 
>>>> Code please.
>> 
>>> It's the same code in both cases, I simply renamed "b.python" as
>>> "b.py" as a test.
>> 
>> The code in b.py matters. I /suspect/ it's importing itself somehow
>> (probably indirectly), and Python doesn't look for ".python" files
>> when importing, so it fails with an ImportError. But since you haven't
>> shown the code, I can only guess.
> 
> Yes the code in b.py matters.
> 
> Why it matters is that there was another difference between XP and
> Vista - the XP machine was single core but the Vista machine was multi
> core - and the code behaves differently in each case.

Yes, and the XP machine's case was blue, therefore case color is important, too.

S