futue feature division not found (embedded)

[Robert Brewer]

Jive wrote:
> "Bengt Richter" <bokr at oz.net> wrote in message
> news:41a925d5.1197560430 at news.oz.net...
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:51:24 GMT, "Jive" 
> <someone at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I've got a program with Python 2.3 embedded.  When I try 
> to run a script
> > >containing "from __future__ import division", I get an exception:
> > >
> > >    File "main2.py", line 3
> > >    from __future__ import divison
> > >SyntaxError: future feature divison is not defined
> >                                  ^^ s/divison/division/  ;-)
> > >
> > >Anyone know how to fix that?  BTW, when I run the program with
> > >CO_FUTURE_DIVISION set in PyCompilerFlags, division works 
> the new way, as
> it
> >                                                 ^^^
> > >should.
> > >
> > >
> > HTH. On to the next bug ;-)
> 
> What's HTH?

"Hope that helps"

> It does fail though.  Here's the message when I type it right:
> 
> File "main2.py", line 3, in ?
>     from __future__ import division
> ImportError: No module named __future__
> 
> I didn't misspell __future__ did I?

Nope. Mine's sitting at C:\Python23\Lib\__future__.py. Must not have
embedded that one.


Robert Brewer
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