Python won't run

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:52 PM, <dkiekow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 23, 5:01 pm, Ned Deily <n... at acm.org> wrote:
> > [Again, please reply-all to the list, don't send private email!]
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2009, at 14:03 , kevin hayes wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Ned, system log didn't do anything when I tried to open IDLE. However,
> this
> > > is what's in the console.log. does this tell you anything?
> >
> > > Unhandled server exception!
> > > Thread: SockThread
> > > Client Address:  ('127.0.0.1', 8833)
> > > Request:  <socket._socketobject object at 0x1087bc8>
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketServ
> er.
> > > py", line 281, in _handle_request_noblock
> > >     self.process_request(request, client_address)
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketServ
> er.
> > > py", line 307, in process_request
> > >     self.finish_request(request, client_address)
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketServ
> er.
> > > py", line 320, in finish_request
> > >     self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/idlelib/rp
> c.p
> > > y", line 503, in __init__
> > >     SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler.__init__(self, sock, addr, svr)
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/SocketServ
> er.
> > > py", line 615, in __init__
> > >     self.handle()
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/idlelib/ru
> n.p
> > > y", line 256, in handle
> > >     import IOBinding
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/idlelib/IO
> Bin
> > > ding.py", line 12, in <module>
> > >     import tempfile
> > >   File
> > >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/tempfile.p
> y",
> > >  line 34, in <module>
> > >     from random import Random as _Random
> > >   File "random.py", line 3, in <module>
> > >     import rand      # handy random-number functions
> > > ImportError: No module named rand
> >
> > > *** Unrecoverable, server exiting!
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > It looks like you have a file named random.py in your Documents
> > directory.  IDLE.app adds ~/Documents to the front of sys.path, python's
> > search path for modules.   Your random.py is being found before the
> > standard library module, random, causing the idle server process to
> > abort.  Rename your random.py* and all should be well for both 2.5 and
> > 2.6.
> >
> > One could argue that IDLE.app should be smarter about situations like
> > this.  It would be good to open an issue about this on the python
> > tracker:
> >    http://bugs.python.org/
> >
> > --
> >   Ned Deily
> >   n... at acm.org -- []
> >
> > --
> >  Ned Deily,
> >  n... at acm.org
>
> I just downloaded the os x installer (2.5) and followed the
> instructions in the wiki to install IDLE. When I double click the icon
> it bounces, but nothing happens. From the command line python -m
> idlelib.idle -n brings up a python terminal window. I tried searching
> for random.py and did not find it. System I'm using is 10.5.6 on a
> MacPro.



Someone should probably update that Wiki page. It's really outdated. Ignore
everything that's on there right now.
Just download the Python 2.6.1 installer from the main python download page
and install it. It will automatically create a Python 2.6 folder in
Applications with IDLE in it.


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