Thanks! (Re: Built-in exception class not found)

[Thomas Happ I]

Thanks to Fredrik Lundh and Michael Hudson for quickly pointing out the
source of the error.  It turns out I somehow did not have Python 1.5.2
fully installed and it was using the Python 1.5.1 libraries which had been
previously installed.  It was an easy fix, and now everything is working
again.

Thanks again,
Tom

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//Thomas Happ
//Graduate Assistant, RIT CS Dept.
//karidian at core.binghamton.edu 
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On 3 Feb 2000, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Thomas Happ I <tjh8300 at cs.rit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 	I am attempting to install Python on our systems here at RIT. 
> > We're running Solaris 7.  It seems to work in most respects, but whenever
> > any program is run, it displays the following message: 
> > 
> > Built-in exception class not found: EnvironmentError.  Library mismatch? 
> > [Warning!  Falling back to string-based exceptions 
> > [Python 1.5.2 (#4, Jan 14 2000, 09:18:57)  [GCC 2.95.1 19990816 (release)]
> > [on sunos5 
> > [Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> > 
> > 	I looked through the Setup file in the Modules part of the
> > installation and couldn't find any modules related to this.  I also
> > checked the FAQ and the Bug report but couldn't find any similar problems.
> > Has anyone encountered this or a similar problem before?  (As I am not a
> > python user myself, please respond to me via e-mail -- I don't normally
> > read this newsgroup:)
> > 	Thanks,
> > 	Tom
> 
> Hmm. Do you have a python 1.5.1 (or earlier) installation knocking
> about somewhere?  Looking at cvs diffs, it seems that EnvironmentError
> appeared between 1.5.1 and 1.5a2, so if a python 1.5.1 library is
> being found before the 1.5.2 one, you'd get this error. I'd suggest
> either nuking the 1.5.1 install (if this is an option) or mucking with
> $PYTHONPATH.
> 
> HTH,
> Michael
> 
>