[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: I may have wrecked my python, ( last time i sent this, it was bounced cause I haddn't joined the SIG, i don know if you got this yet

[Nehemiah Dacres]

On 2/25/06, Nehemiah Dacres <vivacarlie at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Nehemiah I. Dacres <vivacarlie at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 23, 2006 11:40 PM
> Subject: I may have wrecked my python
> To: pythonmac-sig at python.org
>
>
> I am a student of Computer Science and i need help understanding how
> MacOSX handles Python.
> the class I am in is "Intro to Object Oriented Programing" so they
> teach in python to reduce teaching of syntax so they can focus on O.
> Orientation. I need to import modules we create in class into my
> programs and i want to be able to do this as painlessly as possible
> per run. My first solution was to find where all the other third party
> modules are kept so i found "PyObjC" and there  i found how to install
> the modules i needed for class. I got this to work and the terminal
> agreed however lately I've been having problems.
>        every sence then, ive been getting this error
>
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
>
> and I really don't know what's going on. I know what PATH is and how
> to append it but my knowledge of unix stops at your tutorials in the
> tiger terminal, and that of Inside Mac (I never even got Fink and
> those X Droplets to work ) so I don't want to mess things up further
> than I already have. Recently (im certian it was a later date than
> when i changed that) Bittorrent stopped working. I ran it from withing
> the package and got this
>
> Last login: Thu Feb 16 20:52:55 on ttyp2
> /Users/Nehemiah/Applications/BitTorrent.app/Contents/MacOS/BitTorrent; exit
> Welcome to Darwin!
> adsl-70-130-208-110:~ Nehemiah$
> /Users/Nehemiah/Applications/BitTorrent.app/Contents/MacOS/BitTorrent;
> exit
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/Users/Nehemiah/Applications/BitTorrent.app/Contents/Resources/__main__.py",
> line 1, in ?
>    import AppHelper
>  File "./AppHelper.py", line 14, in ?
>  File "./AppKit/__init__.py", line 8, in ?
>  File "./AppKit/_AppKitSignatures.py", line 1, in ?
>  File "./objc/__init__.py", line 20, in ?
>  File "./objc/_convenience.py", line 21, in ?
> ImportError: No module named itertools
> 2006-02-16 21:02:44.085 BitTorrent[388] *** Uncaught exception:
> <NSInternalInconsistencyException>
> /Users/drue/wa/osx/main-embedded-interpreter.m:75 pyobjc_main()
> PyRun_SimpleFile failed with file
> '/Users/Nehemiah/Applications/BitTorrent.app/Contents/Resources/__main__.py'.
>  See console for errors.
> Trace/BPT trap
> logout
> [Process completed]
>
> Most of that was greek to me but upon looking at the explanation the
> problem was clearly my python. (which was made even more obvious when
> looking at the resources folder: it seems Bittorent is a Python native
> app). This makes things even more dire because I've been using that
> program for my anime fix, it doesn't work for ANY account on the
> machine.
> the final change is that i found the location of the path in
> Extras.pth (/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Extras/lib/python2.3)
> found that the last folder was just "python" instead of "python2.3"
> but after I remedied that, it still didn't work
> the situation is pretty bad but at least regular scripts work
> (
> n=raw_input('enter the number up to which you want to take the product')
> n=int(n)
> k=raw_input('enter the number u want to skip')
> k=int(k)
>
> prod=1
> for i in range (1,n+1,k):
>        prod*=i
>        print i
>        print prod
> )
> once with TextWrangler The terminal told me that it couldn't find the
> debugger file. i just found the file dbg.py and put it were the
> terminal said it was looking, and sence then i haven't gotten that
> message.
>
> Thank you, for your help
>