[Tutor] Idle on RH 7.2 questions

[Chris Kassopulo]

 > Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>  wrote:
 > Hello All:
 >     I am using RH 7.2 with python 1.5.2 as the default
 > for the distribution (I believe). I would prefer to
 > leave 1.5.2 as it is and have also installed Python 2.2.2
 > 
 > I would like to use idle with 2.2.2 and my current idle
 > looks like this:
 > #
 > #! /usr/bin/env python
 > 
 > import os
 > import sys
 > from idlelib import IdleConf
 > 
 > idle_dir = os.path.dirname(IdleConf.__file__)
 > IdleConf.load(idle_dir)
 > 
 > # defer importing Pyshell until IdleConf is loaded
 > from idlelib import PyShell
 > PyShell.main()
 > # 
 > and I have the idle (2.2) directory at 
 >   /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idle
 > 
 > when I run idle, I get the following error message:
 > Traceback (innermost last):
 >   File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ?
 >       from idlelib import IdleConf
 >       ImportError: No module named idlelib
 > I cannot 'locate' or 'find' on my machine
 > My questions are:
 > 1)Is idlelib a seperate distribution 
 >   or
 > 2)Have I made an error in my installation of
 >   python2.2
 > 
 > TIA

Greetings Tim,

Note that I am using python 2.2 under slackware.
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idlelib is the
directory that contains IdleConf.py and there is
no site-packages/idle directory.

Chris