[Tutor] Idle on RH 7.2 questions (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

[Hi Tim; let me forward this to the main Tutor list; I think you
accidently forwarded only to tutor-admin.]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:52:18 -0900
From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: Chris Kassopulo <ckasso@sprynet.com>
Cc: tutor-admin@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Idle on RH 7.2 questions

Hello Chris;
* Chris Kassopulo <ckasso@sprynet.com> [030307 10:57]:
>
> Greetings Tim,
>
> Note that I am using python 2.2 under slackware.
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idlelib is the
> directory that contains IdleConf.py and there is
> no site-packages/idle directory.

 Just for the heck of it, I changed the directory name
 to idlelib and got the same error message.

 Reading the docs for idle under 2.2.2, I note the
 the author says that idle 'needs' python 1.5.2 to
 run (line 38). Perhaps I need to redirect my query
 to ask this question:

 How can I use my existing working version of idle
 (the one that came with the install, which is
 now named idle1.5) to load the python2.2.2 interpreter
 to that I can use some of the new features, like
 list comprehension.

 that would work for me.

 Thanks Chris!
 -tim-
>  > Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>  wrote:
>  > Hello All:
>  >     I am using RH 7.2 with python 1.5.2 as the default
>  > for the distribution (I believe). I would prefer to
>  > leave 1.5.2 as it is and have also installed Python 2.2.2
>  >
>  > I would like to use idle with 2.2.2 and my current idle
>  > looks like this:
>  > #
>  > #! /usr/bin/env python
>  >
>  > import os
>  > import sys
>  > from idlelib import IdleConf
>  >
>  > idle_dir = os.path.dirname(IdleConf.__file__)
>  > IdleConf.load(idle_dir)
>  >
>  > # defer importing Pyshell until IdleConf is loaded
>  > from idlelib import PyShell
>  > PyShell.main()
>  > #
>  > and I have the idle (2.2) directory at
>  >   /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idle
>  >
>  > when I run idle, I get the following error message:
>  > Traceback (innermost last):
>  >   File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ?
>  >       from idlelib import IdleConf
>  >       ImportError: No module named idlelib
>  > I cannot 'locate' or 'find' on my machine
>  > My questions are:
>  > 1)Is idlelib a seperate distribution
>  >   or
>  > 2)Have I made an error in my installation of
>  >   python2.2
>
> Chris
>
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