Re: [Tutor] Help

2012-09-22 Thread Dwight Hutto
>> It's tricky. >> >> Ideally, you need to take your large code base, and reduce it into a >> short piece of sample code that is runnable and reproduces your issue. > > > +1 on this. > > There is no good answer. Speaking for myself, I would prefer that you > attach the file to your email. But

Re: [Tutor] Help

2012-09-22 Thread eryksun
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Dwight Hutto wrote: > > I'd say youtube, but you couldn't copy and paste from the video, just > look at the errors outputed, and a good long video of the code. OK, but please don't make a video and basically grunt like Animal from the Muppet Show: see code! see co

[Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
i have an assignment from a book to practice implementing relative imports. it gave a very clear and easy to follow explanation, but my results are proving the instructions are wrong. here's what i have tried. my folder structure: Project / __init__.py main.py Domestic / __init__

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 22/09/12 20:56, Matthew Ngaha wrote: i have an assignment from a book to practice implementing relative imports. it gave a very clear and easy to follow explanation, but my results are proving the instructions are wrong. Not impossible, but I doubt that. Have you followed the instructions

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Peter Otten
Matthew Ngaha wrote: > i have an assignment from a book to practice implementing relative > imports. it gave a very clear and easy to follow explanation, but my > results are proving the instructions are wrong. here's what i have > tried. my folder structure: > > Project / > >__init__.py >

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> Not impossible, but I doubt that. > > Have you followed the instructions *exactly*? If not, you have > probably missed something. What book is it? > > Otherwise, the book and you are probably using different versions of > Python. What version of Python are you using, and what is the book > using?

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> You probably have a path that reaches into Domestic or Europe sub-package. > That can happen if e. g. Project/Domestic/Europe is your current working > directory. > > Try to cd into the Project folder's parent directory and see if > > $ python -c 'import Project.Domestic.Europe.winners' > > works

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/22/2012 08:33 AM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: >> You probably have a path that reaches into Domestic or Europe sub-package. >> That can happen if e. g. Project/Domestic/Europe is your current working >> directory. >> >> Try to cd into the Project folder's parent directory and see if >> >> $ python -

Re: [Tutor] Can not install pycrypto on Windows 64bit with cygwin(python27)

2012-09-22 Thread eryksun
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Muse Gk wrote: > > I had tried MinGW-w64 today, however, another more errors happen which > just like this ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6034390/compiling-with-cython-and-mingw-produces-gcc-error-unrecognized-command-line-o > ). Another no solution error.

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> try > import ../my_module > instead of > import ..my_module > and see what happens. > Your problem may be just that you haven't included the separator. > > .. means one directory higher but you must separate it from the file name. > > Two directories higher would be > ../../my_module sadly this

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> cd is a shell command; you do it before starting Python. You didn't > mention what OS you're running, but cd should be about the same for > Linux, Windows, or Mac. im on windows. i always start Python via IDLE. ive never started it for editing though the shell, run > cmd etc? ill type that int

Re: [Tutor] application whitelisting

2012-09-22 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
  >On 21/09/12 20:51, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My company just started application whitelisting. Now a new version of >>a (benign!!) dll does not work as it (or rather, its file hash, if I >>understood it correctly) is not whitelisted. > >Then get it whitelisted. If your company does

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> You probably have a path that reaches into Domestic or Europe sub-package. > That can happen if e. g. Project/Domestic/Europe is your current working > directory. > > Try to cd into the Project folder's parent directory and see if > > $ python -c 'import Project.Domestic.Europe.winners' > > works

Re: [Tutor] Can not install pycrypto on Windows 64bit with cygwin(python27)

2012-09-22 Thread Muse Gk
eryksun (), I really appreciate what you had done for me. I still can not make through those errors. Or I can say there is no way install pycrypto with MinGW or Cygwin. >Also, according to http://bugs.python.org/issue4709, you might need >MS_WIN64 to be manually defined. Try installing like this

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Peter Otten
Matthew Ngaha wrote: >> You probably have a path that reaches into Domestic or Europe >> sub-package. That can happen if e. g. Project/Domestic/Europe is your >> current working directory. >> >> Try to cd into the Project folder's parent directory and see if >> >> $ python -c 'import Project.Domes

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> You had forward slashes in your description of the folder layout, so I > assumed you were on a linux box or a mac. I think I have now learned the > lesson and will make fewer assumptions in the future. > > First, in idle's "shell" window type > import sys print(sys.executable) > > (dont

Re: [Tutor] Can not install pycrypto on Windows 64bit with cygwin(python27)

2012-09-22 Thread eryksun
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Muse Gk wrote: > > c:/users/gk/downloads/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.5.4/../../../. > ./x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible > C:\Python27\libs/libpytho > n27.a when searching for -lpython27 FYI, -lpython27 is for linking to the p

Re: [Tutor] Relative import help

2012-09-22 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 22 September 2012 11:56, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > from ..silverware import Silverware > heres my error mesages: ... ValueError: Attempted relative import in > non-package Just an off the cuff remark since no one else picked up on this, but the above errir message to me implies there's poss