Strange behavior in Windows

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:31:40 -0300, Jakob Svavar Bjarnason  
<jakobsb04 at ru.is> escribió:

> I have been trying to switch to Python from other languages such as Perl  
> and now I have a newbie question.
>
> I have been trying to run a setup script to install a python library. To  
> do that I need to run "c:> python setup.py install" but the strange  
> thing is is that when it runs the command:
>
>>>> from distutils import log
>
> I get the error ONLY while in cmd. If I run this from the interactive  
> shell that comes with IDLE it works. But if I go into the interactive  
> shell in the Windows shell cmd then I get:
>
> ImportError: cannot import log

Maybe you have two different versions installed? Try this and post what  
you get:

import sys
print sys.version
print sys.executable
print sys.path

both from inside IDLE and the console.
Python versions earlier than 2.3 did not have a distutils.log module.

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Gabriel Genellina