PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Hi All-- I've been using PySol-4.40 for years, because that was the last Windows installer version I could find. My wife's been using it for almost the same length of time. That version's worked just fine on W98, W98SE, W2K (server included), and WinXP SP1. I upgraded to SP2 and pysol fails silently. Running 'python pysol.pyw' gives me this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File pysol.pyw, line 64, in ? imp.load_compiled(__main__, sys.argv[0]) ImportError: Bad magic number in C:\Program Files\PySol-4.40\data\pysol.pyc I can't find any later version on google, although I turned up a thread on this list regarding running pysol in a later version on W98. I also found http://avitous.net/software/pysol-windows/py23.shtml but the version he has REQUIRES ActiveState python 2.2, even though he says he's put together a version for 2.3--and of course, I'm running Python 2.4. My wife's going to be force to upgrade to SP2 some of these days, and she won't be happy if her solitaire doesn't work. Does anyone have a working version? Anyone know what happened to Markus ... Oberhumer? Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Ivan I can't find any later version on google... It may not help you much, but I was able to get it working on MacOSX by grabbing the latest available source and tracking down the contents of the data directory via the Wayback Machine. If you'd like to give it a try (I'm not sure how you'd get sound stuff working - I'm not a Windows guy), let me know. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Skip Montanaro wrote: Ivan I can't find any later version on google... It may not help you much, but I was able to get it working on MacOSX by grabbing the latest available source and tracking down the contents of the data directory via the Wayback Machine. If you'd like to give it a try (I'm not sure how you'd get sound stuff working - I'm not a Windows guy), let me know. Source, data, and OS X binaries for 4.82 also available from here: http://homepage.mac.com/brian_l/FileSharing6.html -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die. -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
You might try finding the source to pysol, and you might notice that you have a bunch of *.py files and for each of those, a corresponding .pyc file. If you delete all the pyc files, then they'll get re-created from the .py files, and you might be all set. -Jim On 6/1/05, Ivan Van Laningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All-- I've been using PySol-4.40 for years, because that was the last Windows installer version I could find. My wife's been using it for almost the same length of time. That version's worked just fine on W98, W98SE, W2K (server included), and WinXP SP1. I upgraded to SP2 and pysol fails silently. Running 'python pysol.pyw' gives me this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File pysol.pyw, line 64, in ? imp.load_compiled(__main__, sys.argv[0]) ImportError: Bad magic number in C:\Program Files\PySol-4.40\data\pysol.pyc I can't find any later version on google, although I turned up a thread on this list regarding running pysol in a later version on W98. I also found http://avitous.net/software/pysol-windows/py23.shtml but the version he has REQUIRES ActiveState python 2.2, even though he says he's put together a version for 2.3--and of course, I'm running Python 2.4. My wife's going to be force to upgrade to SP2 some of these days, and she won't be happy if her solitaire doesn't work. Does anyone have a working version? Anyone know what happened to Markus ... Oberhumer? Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Hi All-- Robert Kern wrote: Skip Montanaro wrote: Ivan I can't find any later version on google... It may not help you much, but I was able to get it working on MacOSX by grabbing the latest available source and tracking down the contents of the data directory via the Wayback Machine. If you'd like to give it a try (I'm not sure how you'd get sound stuff working - I'm not a Windows guy), let me know. Source, data, and OS X binaries for 4.82 also available from here: http://homepage.mac.com/brian_l/FileSharing6.html Very cool, but MacOSX doesn't help me much. I'm sure I could get it working on Linux, but I'd like to be able to run it on my main machine, instead of having to hop back over to the Win98 machine (an option my wife doesn't have). Sound server seems to be available as a .pyd file for the Win32 extensions, so I think that's not a problem. Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Hi All-- James Carroll wrote: You might try finding the source to pysol, and you might notice that you have a bunch of *.py files and for each of those, a corresponding .pyc file. If you delete all the pyc files, then they'll get re-created from the .py files, and you might be all set. Nope. The pyc files don't match the py files, and he imports the pyc files directly. That's what 'imp.load_compiled(__main__, sys.argv[0])' means. The windows version that Markus shipped never included the .py files anyway, since he didn't need them. Getting the source and trying to run it directly would work if there were any doc help at all, but there's none. What little there is is aimed at Linux. Makefiles need to be constructed, there are templates that get filled out automatically. I can get it working eventually, I suppose, but I was really hoping someone else had done the work already, or at least had pointers to docs on how to get it working. Metta, Ivan -Jim On 6/1/05, Ivan Van Laningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All-- I've been using PySol-4.40 for years, because that was the last Windows installer version I could find. My wife's been using it for almost the same length of time. That version's worked just fine on W98, W98SE, W2K (server included), and WinXP SP1. I upgraded to SP2 and pysol fails silently. Running 'python pysol.pyw' gives me this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File pysol.pyw, line 64, in ? imp.load_compiled(__main__, sys.argv[0]) ImportError: Bad magic number in C:\Program Files\PySol-4.40\data\pysol.pyc I can't find any later version on google, although I turned up a thread on this list regarding running pysol in a later version on W98. I also found http://avitous.net/software/pysol-windows/py23.shtml but the version he has REQUIRES ActiveState python 2.2, even though he says he's put together a version for 2.3--and of course, I'm running Python 2.4. My wife's going to be force to upgrade to SP2 some of these days, and she won't be happy if her solitaire doesn't work. Does anyone have a working version? Anyone know what happened to Markus ... Oberhumer? Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Ivan Van Laningham wrote: Hi All-- I've been using PySol-4.40 for years, because that was the last Windows installer version I could find. My wife's been using it for almost the same length of time. That version's worked just fine on W98, W98SE, W2K (server included), and WinXP SP1. I upgraded to SP2 and pysol fails silently. Running 'python pysol.pyw' gives me this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File pysol.pyw, line 64, in ? imp.load_compiled(__main__, sys.argv[0]) ImportError: Bad magic number in C:\Program Files\PySol-4.40\data\pysol.pyc Are you sure you're using the Python version (2.3, 2.4 etc) that the Pysol .pyw files were compiled for? As I understand it, that's what the magic number is - a versioning number for the .pyc/.pyw files which changes when the Python version is upped. If you had multiple versions of Python installed on your machine, upgrading to SP2 might have muddled your file associations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PySol not working on WinXP, SP2
Rocco Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure you're using the Python version (2.3, 2.4 etc) that the Pysol .pyw files were compiled for? As I understand it, that's what the magic number is - a versioning number for the .pyc/.pyw files which changes when the Python version is upped. If you had multiple versions of Python installed on your machine, upgrading to SP2 might have muddled your file associations. 2.4 came out about the same time as SP2. If the .pyc files worked with 2.3, I am pretty sure they will not work with 2.4 since I am pretty sure the marshal format (used to make .pycs) was changed slightly for 2.4 after no change for a few releases. It will change again for 2.5. Python is intended to be distributed as readable source. .pycs are intended to be temporary caches, only kept around to avoid recompiling with every run, but certainly disposable with version changes. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
