Python not starting

DRJ Reddy rama29065 at gmail.com
Sun May 5 10:28:42 EDT 2013


On Sunday, May 5, 2013 7:46:48 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> > 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.

I found a stat.py in python27/idlelib i haven't created one.



More information about the Python-list mailing list