Fokke Nauta wrote: > "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <pointede...@web.de> wrote in message > news:6545843.yvfaxzv...@pointedears.de...
It's attribution _line_, not attribution novel. Your quotes are hardly legible, too → <http://insideoe.com/> >> Fokke Nauta wrote: >>> I'm running a PC with XP Pro32, [.] >>> […] In the PyWebDAV README it says: >>> >>> Installation and setup of server can be as easy as follows: >>> >>> $ easy_install PyWebDAV >>> $ davserver -D /tmp -n -J >>> >>> But of course it doesn't work like that. When I start up Python GUI >> That is really not a *G*raphical User Interface, but the (text-based) >> Python shell. > > Yes, I noticed. But the application has the name of Python GUI. ACK. Admittedly I cannot remember having used Python on Windows (XP) except via Cygwin. >>> I see the ">>>" prompt instead of the "$" prompt. >> "Doctor, my arm hurts when I move it." - "Don't move it, then." > > I don't see the point here ... Do not run `python' or the "Python GUI", then. >> The Python shell executes Python code. The above obviously is not Python >> code, but *system* shell commands. So let the *system* command shell >> execute them (as indicated by the `$' prompt, which is customary for a >> sh-based UNIX/Linux shell prompt). > > I know. I worked with SCO Unix and various sorts of Linux. > But never with Python, so I hadn't got a clue about the prompt. Come on, with that experience you see a `$' and those commands and don't realize it is (ba)sh? >> Since you use Windows XP, type `cmd' to get the command shell (if you >> knew MS-DOS, which I doubt, you are at home now). > > I know MSDOS. I even worked with CP/M Good for you. >> However, you appear to have found the *UNIX/Linux* README (and the >> corresponding version?) of that server: the second command is usually how >> you would run a program as daemon on Unices (run through an init script), >> while on Windows NT (like XP) you would have a setup program install a >> service for you (maybe to execute that command when the service is >> started). Look for the Windows version. > > There is no other Windows version except the packages I mentioned, > PyWebDAV and PyXML. The only Windows thing I got was the Python > interpreter itself. Has it not occurred to you to STFW for "easy_install" first? >>> And there is no easy_install script in the PyXML-0.8.4 >>> directory, only a setup.py and ez_setup.py script. I guess the latter is >>> the one to use. But how? >> RTFM. > > Which fucking manual? That of the server, on Windows-related information. Or that of easy_install. Or Python. Whichever comes first. >>> How do I proceed next? >> Look for the Windows version. If there is none, get easy_install and use >> it as described. > > Thanks for your quick reply. > This means "Show over"? No, it means "Do your homework". -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
