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<pre wrap="">Message: 5
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:51:04 -0400
From: Kent Johnson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:kent37@tds.net"><kent37@tds.net></a>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Problem with Winpdb.
Cc: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tutor@python.org">tutor@python.org</a>
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Steve Robb wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Can anyone point me to what the problem may be with running Winpdb?
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>I am running Win98, unfortunately
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>However, when I try,
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>..\python _winpdb.py, from the same directory, I get the following
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>traceback.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Traceback (most recent call last):
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span> File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\winpdb.py", line 607, in calc_path
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span> app_data = os.environ['APPDATA']
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span> File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\os.py", line 422, in __getitem__
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span> return self.data[key.upper()]
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>KeyError: 'APPDATA'
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winpdb seems to be looking for an environment variable (APPDATA) that is not supported on Win 98. As a workaround you could replace line 606 in C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\winpdb.py which says
if os.name == 'nt':
with
if os.name == 'nt' and os.environ.has_key('APPDATA'):
This will make winpdb create its settings file in the current directory with the name winpdb_settings.cfg.
Reporting this as a bug on SourceForge is also a good idea.
Kent
Thanks Kent,
Worked like a chanp! Thanks so much for the help.
I will report the "bug" to SourceForge once they send me an account login.
Steve
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