what a horrible environment windows is to support anything! (I was a UNIX professional). seems the user profile PATH is a registry entry, and was not updated when I deinstalled Python2.7 still haven't figured out how to change it - I will NOT attempy a regedit.
season's greetings On 24 December 2015 at 13:59, Nicky Mac <nmcelwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear python Team > I think I've been wasting your time: > > C:\Users\Nick>path > PATH=C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program > Files\Broadcom\Broadcom 802.11 Network > Adapter;;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program > Files (x86)\ATI > Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Python\Python35\Scripts\;C:\Python\Python35\ > > somehow the new py3.5 has been added to the end, not the beginning. > guess this path is what you meant by "my profile". > I'll set about fixing it. > Meery christmas to you all > Nick > > On 24 December 2015 at 11:06, Nicky Mac <nmcelwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello again.] >> not sure what you mean by "my profile". >> following your suggestion, looks normal: >> >> C:\Users\Nick> python -c "import importlib; >> print(importlib.find_loader('idlelib').path)" >> C:\Python\Python35\lib\idlelib\__init__.pyc >> >> A search for idlelib shows this one plus one deep inside OpenOffice and a >> Game. >> >> On 23 December 2015 at 21:20, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nicky Mac <nmcelwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > no sign of old Py2.7 anywhere :- >>> > >>> > C:\Users\Nick>python -c "import sys; print(*sys.path, sep='\n')" >>> > >>> > C:\Python\Python35\python35.zip >>> > C:\Python\Python35\DLLs >>> > C:\Python\Python35\lib >>> > C:\Python\Python35 >>> > C:\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages >>> >>> The first blank entry is for the current directory. Do you maybe have >>> an old "idlelib" directory in your profile? >>> >>> Print what it's attempting to load: >>> >>> python -c "import importlib; >>> print(importlib.find_loader('idlelib').path)" >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nick "Mac" McElwaine >> > > > > -- > Nick "Mac" McElwaine > -- Nick "Mac" McElwaine -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list