"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <pointede...@web.de> wrote in message news:4761603.ypau67u...@pointedears.de... > 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?
Ofcourse I realized it was Unix/Linux. I already could tell that as the packages I downloaded were tar.gz files. So I unpacked them and expected to run a Python installer script from the Python command line. Hence my question "How do I do that", but perhaps I did not make myself clear enough. Tried to run the Python installer script from the DOS command line but that resulted in an error. As I have Cygwin running as well, I could try to install it there instead of in Windows. >>> 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? What do you mean by STFW? I wasn't aware that easy_install was a utility. Downloaded and installed the Windows version and run easy_install pywebdav. It downloaded something, installed something and finished something. But, once again, don't know how to proceed. Otherwise I'll give it a try under Cygwin. >>>> 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. It's my own server and I didn't write a manual for it. In the manual of Easy_install it says how to install packaged etc and I did sucessfully. There is no furter information as how to proceed. That's why I posted my question here. >>>> How do I proceed next? >>> Look for the Windows version. If there is none, get easy_install and >>> use >>> it as described. I did and it worked. What's next? Fokke -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
