On 4 jun, 19:47, Spyder42 <spyder1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:03:48 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> > wrote: > >On 6/4/2010 9:08 AM, Spyder42 wrote: > >> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:50:28 +0200, Christian Heimes > > >>> Python 2.6 is not supported on Windows 98 and earlier. You need at least > >>> Windows 2000 with a recent service pack. > >> So your response is either, you don't know if there is a fix, or 'No > >> way in h377.' You couldn't figure out by my post that I already knew > >> that? > > >It was not obvious, without closely reading your original post, and even > >then it is not clear, that you *knew* than 2.6 was not supported on > >Win98. You could have asked 'I know 2.6+ is not officially supported in > >win98. Does anyone know a workaround other than upgrading windows or > >sticking with 2.5?". *That* would have been clear. > > I had a specific question and I got a non-specific non-answer. > If they didn't know, they should not have answered.
You didn't state your question as clearly as you appear to think. > >It was not obvious, without closely reading your original post... > > So it WAS obvious to anyone who was PAYING ATTENTION? It is not obvious to me at least, even after closely reading your post. All I can deduce from it is that you assumed you would have a better chance upgrading your OS, not that you *knew* your current OS was officially unsupported. Christian Heimes gave you the right answer, even if it was not the answer you expected. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
