On Tuesday 31 August 2010, it occurred to hexusne...@gmail.com to exclaim: > I'm not guessing that this is a problem on Windows 98, but on Windows > ME modules in /Lib don't seem to load. Examples include site.py and > os.py which are both located in the top level Lib directory. The same > thing happens with Python 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5. I can't get IDLE to load > and the Python interpreter always complains that it can't load the > "site" module even if Python is run from the same directory as the > module (note: this does not happen if a module is loaded from the > current working directory while in the interpreter).
What is sys.path set to ? python.exe -c "import sys; print(sys.path)" It sounds like the stdlib directory is not on sys.path. Couldn't say why though... > > I would use another os like Linux or Windows 2000, but this particular > computer can't even seem to handle even the most minimal graphical > Linux distributions. Really? I'm sure you can get Linux on there somehow. It might not be trivial, but it should definitely be possible. Out of interest: what distros did you try? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list