Python Portability

[W. eWatson]

On 8/7/2010 4:45 PM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> To add to the msg I just sent to M. Torrie. We are given the msi
>> programs for Python, PIL,matplotlib, and numpy. The question of how to
>> uninstall and re-install a different version remains.
>
> I'd claim that this is not the real question. The real question is,
> instead: "What specific error did you get when adding a single minus
> sign to the program?"
>
> Please try answering that question also.
>
>> The answer is?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. What do you mean by "given"?
> Perhaps "already downloaded locally"?
>
> If so, the obvious answer is "Go to Add-Remove-Programs. Uninstall.
> Then double-click the MSI files." If that is not a good answer:
> why not?
>
> If you want that automated: write a batch file, invoking "msiexec"
> as necessary.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
Given. We either download them from various specified sites or newbies 
get a CD when they receive hardware that is used by the sponsor's programs.

Add-Remove would be a very good answer, except for one thing. Understand 
that I'm in Win7 so CP takes on a different form. On Control Panel 
Add-Remove, I can find exactly two Python files: Python 2.5, and 
python-Numpy-1.2.0. No scipy anything. Well, this is interesting. I just 
noticed Martin v. Loewis on the Python 2.5 entry. That's you, right?

msiexec. Don't need it automated now, but it might be worthwhile, at 
some future point.

I think I posted the errors my partner got above. Let me look. Yes, 
here's the copy.
He gets

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Documents and 
Settings\HP_Administrator.DavesDesktop\Desktop\NC-FireballReport20100729.py", 
line 40, in <module>
     from scipy import stats as stats # scoreatpercentile
   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py", line 7, 
in <module>
     from stats import *
   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py", line 191, 
in <module>
     import scipy.special as special
   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py", line 
22, in <module>
     from numpy.testing import NumpyTest
ImportError: cannot import name NumpyTest

Here are the first few lines of code.

     import sys, os, glob
     import string
     from numpy import *
     from datetime import datetime, timedelta
     import time
     from scipy import stats as stats # scoreatpercentile