On May 30, 7:29 am, stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > > Andrew P wrote: > >> Hello, > > >> I am new (very) to Python and have just down loaded the latest version > >> of Python (2.5) and WXPython (2.8). > > >> For some reason I cannot get the WXPython demo to run at all. I run > >> windows XP and it can't find a program to run the demo. Any advice? > >> (apologies if this has been posted before). > > > There *should* be a link in your startmenu in the wxPython group. I'm > > quite positive, but not 100% sure. I think it has the snake-icon. But > > if it's really not there (as you suggested), simply go the the folder > > you installed the demo to and run demo.py. > > > Maybe there's a blunder in the installer for the 2.8 demo? Anyone? > > Can't answer that, but on one from two (almost identical) PC's, > I had trouble too, the other went fluently. > On both PC's, > there was an older wxPython (2.6 I believe), > (which from what I've read should be no problem at all), > which wasn't overruled, by some specific file (wx.pth) to point to the > newest. > The effect is that the demo tries to run, can't find aiw?? or something > like that and crashes > (on fast PC's you actually just see a dos box flashing). > Editing the wx.pth file solved the problem. > > cheers, > Stef Mientki
I haven't had any problems in with the demo...but then again, I uninstalled the previous version before putting on the new demo. I did have some minor problems choosing which version I wanted to run with my scripts, but that has nothing to do with the demo. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
