[Tutor] py-editdist

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

Hi Tutors,
I tried to install this edit distance module but failed:
http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-editdist/

I'm running Ubuntu Linux. The error message is below. Your help appreciated


emad at emad-desktop:~/Desktop/py-editdist-0.3$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_ext
building 'editdist' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c editdist.c -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/editdist.o
editdist.c:22:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
editdist.c:91: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
editdist.c:94: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’
before ‘*’ token
editdist.c:110: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’
before ‘editdist_methods’
editdist.c:116: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
editdist.c:119: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’
before ‘initeditdist’
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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