Re: strange results from sys.version

2010-09-27 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On 2010-09-27, at 4:01 PM, John Machin wrote: > User (work): sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82500, Aug 23 2010, 17:18:21) etc > Me : sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) etc > > [...] User result looks whacked: lower patch number, later date Perusing http://svn.python.org/view/pyt

Re: strange results from sys.version

2010-09-27 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On 2010-09-27, at 4:30 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 9/27/10 6:01 PM, John Machin wrote: >> I am trying to help a user of my xlrd package who says he is getting >> anomalous >> results on his "work computer" but not on his "home computer". >> >> Attempts to reproduce his alleged problem in a veri

Re: strange results from sys.version

2010-09-27 Thread Robert Kern
On 9/27/10 6:01 PM, John Machin wrote: I am trying to help a user of my xlrd package who says he is getting anomalous results on his "work computer" but not on his "home computer". Attempts to reproduce his alleged problem in a verifiable manner on his "work computer" have failed, so far ... the