[Tutor] IOError when importing nose

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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> From: Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com>
>To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] IOError when importing nose
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>The key line is:
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>>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
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>which is pretty common, and usually means your python script doesn't have file permissions for whatever. 
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>I have to disagree with Walter about using system packages instead of pip, though his advice is spot on for fixing this issue and he obviously knows what he's doing.  Very much my experience that pip is overwhelmingly more popular and reliable. 
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>Something something virtualenvs.

Hi,

(you sent me a private mail but I am ccing the list now)

I was also somewhat surprised by that remark. Pip is better (newer)  than easy_install, and I always assumed that pip was at least as good as e.g. apt-get. But that was just an assumption of mine, based on nothing really. 


Albert-Jan