[Tutor] Problems installing

[Zubin Mithra]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Martin <amartin7211 at gmail.com>wrote:

> How exactly can I go about deleting __init__.pyc? Sorry, I am new to this
> so I need everything spelled out for me.
>

Go the the C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\esys\escript\ directory and delete
it manually. :)


> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Andrew Martin <amartin7211 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded Python 2.6.5 onto my windows vista laptop. I am
>>> attempting to install "escript version 3: Solution of Partial Differential
>>> Equations (PDE) using Finite Elements (FEM)." I downloaded the files and
>>> manually placed them in their appropriately place on my computer according
>>> to the ReadMe file. However, when I try to import escript, I get an error:
>>>
>>> >>> import esys.escript
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
>>>     import esys.escript
>>> ImportError: Bad magic number in
>>> C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\esys\escript\__init__.pyc
>>> >>>
>>>
>>> Can anybody lend me a hand?
>>>
>>> I don't know anything about escript, I'm afraid, but try this  - .pyc
>> files are always replaceable, as long as the .py or .pyw files they
>> correspond to still exist.  So delete __init__.pyc (I'm assuming that
>> there's also a __init__.py file) and try again.
>>
>> Of course, this is only a solution if the problem is a corrupt .pyc file,
>> which I've run into on a couple of occasions.  If it's something else...
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> --
>> www.fsrtechnologies.com
>>
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