Install setup tools for 2.6

2009-08-05 Thread Jeremy Cowles
Ok, I feel like this is a really stupid question, but how do you install setup tools for Python 2.6 under windows? The only format is .egg which requires setup tools to install, doesn't it? Thanks, Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bug with Python, Cygwin and /dev/urandom?

2009-07-31 Thread Jeremy Cowles
urllib2.py is crashes when calling randombytes(n). I run the following under Cygwin (mimicking how randombytes works): $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 2 2008, 09:26:14) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for m

Import hashlib fails, embedded

2009-07-19 Thread Jeremy Cowles
I'm working on an embeddded Python interpreter (using the c-api) where we are loading a custom, zipped copy of the standard Python library (./lib/python25.zip). Everything is working fine, but when I try to "import hashlib", i get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "tr

Re: Zipped Python?

2009-07-04 Thread Jeremy Cowles
> > I'm looking for a full 2.5 or 2.6 version of Python that is zipped (i.e. no >> install). My intentions are to use it for a distributed computing project >> (PyMW) where there is no guarantee that Python is installed on the worker >> machines and an interactive install is out of the question. >>

Zipped Python?

2009-07-04 Thread Jeremy Cowles
Hi all, I'm looking for a full 2.5 or 2.6 version of Python that is zipped (i.e. no install). My intentions are to use it for a distributed computing project (PyMW) where there is no guarantee that Python is installed on the worker machines and an interactive install is out of the question. I've

Distributed computing & sending the interpreter

2009-06-13 Thread Jeremy Cowles
Hi all, I'm working on a distributed computing project (PyMW and BOINC) where we are sending Python scripts to client machines. Currently, we make two very unlikely assumptions: that Python 2.5 is installed and that the interpreter is available on the PATH. We are looking at our options to remove