Python not starting

[Roy Smith]

> On Sunday, May 5, 2013 7:21:59 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article <9ace60b8-a07d-41bc-ac9f-507f6c61f955 at googlegroups.com>,

> > Just a wild guess, but did you happen to create a module of your own 
> > named "stat", which is getting imported instead of the one from the 
> > library?

In article <c7c26e78-b786-4205-9ffa-5eb29006479c at googlegroups.com>,
 DRJ Reddy <rama29065 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even from command prompt i can't start python.The error is coming up.Python 
> in Windows7 box.

I don't know Windows, but my guess is still that it's finding some other 
file called stat.py before it's finding the system library one.  Try 
doing a file system search for all files named "stat.py" and see what 
you find.  On unix, I would do "find / -name stat.py".  I assume there's 
something similar on Windows.

The other thing I would try is tracing the python process as it starts 
up.  On unix, I would do something like "strace -e trace=file python" 
and see if it's finding a stat.py in some unexpected place.  Again, I 
can only assume there's something similar on Windows.

Oh, and please don't post with Google Groups.  It double-spaces 
everything and makes your message really difficult to read.