Hi, first of all sorry for writing my first post in french. Hereafter is the english version of my text:
I'm using python (version 2.5.2, under debian lenny for personnal use on my notebook, and version 2.6 under Windows XP with my students) for teaching an introduction to algorithmic at High School (in France). I'm also using IDLE as IDE. Here is my problem (I try to solve it under linux fisrt): 1) I wrote a .pythonrc.py file with the two lines from __future__ import division from math import * 2) in my .bashrc file I wrote PYTHONSTARTUP = "/home/fred/.pythonrc.py" export PYTHONSTARTUP 3) when invoking python interactively in a terminal, it works fine: >>> 1/3 0.33333333333333331 >>> sqrt(5) 2.2360679774997898 4) I wrote a small script file test.py which contains print sqrt(2) print 1/3 Editing/testing this file with IDLE with the following command line: idle-python2.5 -n -s test.py and executing it with F5 gives the lines IDLE 1.2.2 ==== No Subprocess ==== >>> >>> 1.41421356237 0 So I have here a first problem with 1/3 division that should give a float result (according to the startup file import from __future__). 5) More annoying yet, when launching IDLE through the menu (under gnome), even the sqrt(2) command is not accepted (NameError: name 'sqrt' is not defined). I have checked that IDLE is launched with the command /usr/bin/idle-python2.5 -n -s Does anyone know how to solve this ? (of course I know that I could write 1.0/3, or also I could migrate to python 3). I simply want to "simplify" the python syntax for my students, so that "/" operator is always for them the usual (float) division, and usual math functions are available, this WITHOUT having to write any import at the top of their script. I also know that such scripts could easily be broken when changing the environment. This is not indeed a problem for me, since I'm not here teaching how to produce good programs. Thank's in advance for any valuable help. Frederic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org