[Distutils] bdist_wininst TypeError

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:55 AM 10/7/2007 -0500, Mike wrote:
>On 10/7/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > Try this:
> >
> > python -c "import distutils; print distutils.__version__, 
> distutils.__file__"
> >
> > This should print a version and a filename.  The filename should be
> > something like 'c:\Python24\Lib\distutils\...' (*without*
> > site-packages between the Lib and distutils), and the version should
> > be 1.0.3 or higher.
> >
> > If the location is different, you haven't uninstalled it
> > correctly.  If the location is correct but the version is less than
> > 1.0.3, you installed the distutils over the version that came with
> > Python, and will have to reinstall Python to fix it.
> >
> >
>
>Here is what was returned:
>
>2.4.1 L:\Python24\lib\distutils\__init__.py

Then this version of Python should have a usable version of the distutils.

>I did notice that if I try running Python from the command line, it
>loads the ActiveState version of Python 2.4.3 rather than the "normal"
>2.4.3 version. I don't suppose that could be the problem,  could it?

Since I don't know what pythons you've been running for what, I have no idea.