On Jan 12, 9:03 pm, Dave WB3DWE wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:08:20 -0800 (PST), casevh <cas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > >On Jan 10, 8:16 pm, Dave WB3DWE wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:48:52 -0800 (PST), casevh <cas...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > > >> >On Jan 9, 3:10 pm, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote: > >> >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 13:27:07 -0800 (PST), casevh <cas...@gmail.com> > >> >> wrote: > > >Are you sure you are using the new version of python3.1 (the one > >located in /usr/local/bin/)? > > >What is the result of "which python3.1"? > > >What happens if you run "/usr/local/bin/python3.1"? > > >casevh > > You're correct : there are now two versions of Python 3 on my machine. > > Two weeks ago when I installed the Python-3.1.1 from the tarball somehow > it got called up with "python3" . Thats what I've continued to run and > now has all the errors. > > in my usr/local/bin are > 2to3 idle3 pydoc3 python3 python3.1 python3.1-config and, > in light blue, python3-config > > Running " python3.1 " solves _most_ of the problems : > It imports the random & time modules and runs most of my modules in > the pycode dir. > The libreadline5-dev works fine and all my issues with the keys are > gone. I'm astonished. > > However now my modules that import msvcrt will not run. I use this > for single char keyboard input. Trying to import msvcrt yields > InputError : No module named msvcrt > I believe a module using this ran before recompilation. Furthermore I > can find msvcrtmodule.c in /home/dave/python31/Python-3.1.1/PC > and msvcrt.rst in /home/dave/python31/Python-3.1.1/Doc/library > I use this a lot. Suppose I should now learn curses module. > > Thanks for everything Dave WB3DWE pdlem...@earthlink.net- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
msvcrt provides support for the MicroSoft Visual C RunTime so it won't run on Ubuntu. The files that you see are the source code and documentation but the source code is only compiled on Windows. casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list