On Jan 21, 9:05 pm, pythonewbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 jan, 10:34, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Diez > > To John Machin,
Get a clue #1: read the instructions for your news client ... like the bit that says "click on the message/posting that you want to reply to" > > >>> sys.path > > ['', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/ > python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/ > python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/ > usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', Get a clue #2: it "doesn't work" because it needs a different pattern on *x platforms. Consider proceeding in this order: 1. get some clues 2. write an app, test it, etc 3. do the setup.py thingie for Windows & Linux 4. persuade some people to install it and test it 5. then and only then look into "verify if an/several extension(s) are installed and to automatically install the missing ones" By the way, I understand "extensions" to mean modules/packages written substantially or wholly in C or C++. Is that what you mean? If so, do 1-5 above with a Python-only module first. BTW#2 ... for Windows users of an app you'd need to be able to package the app up with py2exe, which involves _including_ all the third-party libraries called by the app. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
