In article <91f48dbf0904241533k3722b56au56bb7726eed30...@mail.gmail.com>, Ethan Herdrick <i...@reatlas.com> wrote:
> Hi - I'm getting started with Python and am getting ImportError > trouble with the first step of the very simple tutorial for web.py. > I'm suspecting that the fact that I have two installations of Python - > one that my Mac came with and one that I installed from > python-2.6.2-macosx2009-04-16.dmg which I got from > python.org/download/ - might be the problem. > > Also, in trying to get this thing going I was fiddling with the > install_lib setting in .pydistutils.cfg and left it in a modified > state before running setup.py on a module, so the module ended up in a > strange location. > > Anyway, I'd really be happier if I could wipe all python stuff - > including things like easy_install - from my machine so I can just > start over. This seems to be harder than it sounds. True? And how > do I do this? Wiping the user-installed python is easy. Just delete: /Library/Frameworks/Python.Framework To do this from terminal you can type: rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.Framework Note that you can also delete just a particular version if python if you have more than one -- just look in the directory mentioned above. This may leave some symlinks in /usr/local/bin, but if you plan to install a fresh python you can ignore them because they will get overwritten. Otherwise look for python* and in the case of Python 2.6, also *2to3* If you messed up your system python, that can be harder, but at least user-installed packages that were properly installed are easy to remove. Look in /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/ (e.g. in Terminal type "open /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages") and remove everything except ReadMe and Extras.pth Then you can look at Extras.pth and make sure it only has one line that points somewhere in /System (you can delete any additional lines). For some reason I found I also have /Library/Python/2.5; not sure where that came from but it is basically empty (just contains site-packages/README). You might want to look for the 2.6 version and make sure it is basically empty. -- Russell
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