Re: [Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread Medina, Patricia
It is intermittent, and will work the next day. And I am lucky enough to have 30 computers with only 20 students. It doesn't happen enough to worry me, but it frustrates the students. Which depending on the day can be a bonus. :) From: Edu-sig [mailto:edu-sig-bounces+pmedina=ccisd@python.org

Re: [Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread Richard Enbody
I've got a class of 270 students running Python 3.x in a Windows lab (22 machines) with essentially all students running their own copies on a variety of laptops -- mostly windows but many macs. The firewall is a good suggestion, but I haven't seen this problem. -rich enb...@cse.msu.edu On 11

Re: [Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread kirby urner
Jackie's problem was fixed with the -n switch. I've used Python 3.x extensively with Win7 since 3.x became available, also XP. Python is used with Windows all over the place. Windows is a flagship platform for Python. There can be confusions these days over whether one should run a "64 bit" or

Re: [Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread Medina, Patricia
We are having a problem running python 3.x with windows 7 also. It says it can't (no processor or something), then it can. Seems like python and windows don't play well together. From: Edu-sig [mailto:edu-sig-bounces+pmedina=ccisd@python.org] On Behalf Of JACKIE MASLOFF Sent: Thursday, Nove

Re: [Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread kirby urner
Greeting Jackie: Python's IDLE talks to itself over 127.0.0.1 and sometimes antivirus software can police that circuit. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8588025/unable-to-load-idle-python-gui I do suggest an experiment where you shut off any antivirus / policing software you can think of, just

[Edu-sig] Problem with Python in Windows

2012-11-15 Thread JACKIE MASLOFF
Yesterday I was running the Windows version of the Python 2.7.3 shell with IDLE as my editor. I saved a file and ran it and got some error message which unfortunately I don't remember. I then closed Python and when I tried to re-open it, I got the following error message: IDLE's subprocess didn't

[Edu-sig] more news 'n views

2012-11-15 Thread Kirby Urner
In related news (noting RurPL is continuing its advance)... the Visual Python group (VPython.org) have been tackling in earnest the challenge of seamlessly integrating their 3D mini-API to an OpenGL experience within wxPython, the Python adapter for the wx GUI toolkit. I simply subscribe to that

Re: [Edu-sig] RurPLE-NG is nice

2012-11-15 Thread Thomas Koch
Jurgis Pralgauskis: > Some updates: Hi Mr. Pralgauskis, I also discovered rurple-ng a few weeks ago and will try it the first time today in school. I converted the mercurial repository to a Git repo at https://github.com/thkoch2001/rurple-ng Are you familiar with Git? Would you like to commit y