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Don Bruder
Greetings, oh scaly ones...
I'm a Mac user with a fairly high level of computer literacy, including
reasonable programming skills in BASIC, C, Pascal, and several flavors
of ML, just trying to run a "canned" Python... Uhhh... Program? Script?
Module? - Yeesh... I'm such a rookie at Python I'm not even sure of the
right terminology to use here...
At this point in the game, I'm not actually trying to *DO* anything in
Python, I just want to run a program that's written in Python.
Specifically, I'm trying to run a P2P package called "BitTorrent".
So I've downloaded and installed a package calling itself "MacPython-OS9
2.2.3", which claims to be functional back to MacOS 8.1. (I'm running
8.6)
That was fairly painless. Now that I've got it installed, I'm slamming
face-first into a brick wall at high velocity - After diddling file
types per the docs for MacPython, I double-click the
"btdownloadheadless.py" file that the FAQ for BitTorrent says should run
for me, and I get a window opening up with this:
Python 2.2.3 (#139, Jun 1 2003, 23:11:08) [CW CARBON GUSI2 THREADS GC]
on mac
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Megalon City
Iownloads:BitTorrent-3.2.1b:btdownloadheadless.py", line 6, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import download
File "Megalon City
Iownloads:BitTorrent-3.2.1b:BitTorrent:download.py", line 23, in ?
from os import getpid, path, makedirs
ImportError: cannot import name getpid
and nothing further happens.
Looks pretty obvious that something it wants can't be found. At this
point in my Python "career", I don't have a freakin' clue what, where to
tell it to look for it, or even *HOW* to tell it to look for it!
Anybody wanna to throw this newbie a bone?
Yes, I realize this is quite vague. Quite frankly, I don't know enough
about the language to even properly describe the problem.
So can Somebody please lend a hand here? Before you're forced to taunt
me a second time!
(Hey! Quit throwing those tomatoes! The docs said Monty Python
references are not only acceptable, but *ENCOURAGED*! )
I'm a Mac user with a fairly high level of computer literacy, including
reasonable programming skills in BASIC, C, Pascal, and several flavors
of ML, just trying to run a "canned" Python... Uhhh... Program? Script?
Module? - Yeesh... I'm such a rookie at Python I'm not even sure of the
right terminology to use here...
At this point in the game, I'm not actually trying to *DO* anything in
Python, I just want to run a program that's written in Python.
Specifically, I'm trying to run a P2P package called "BitTorrent".
So I've downloaded and installed a package calling itself "MacPython-OS9
2.2.3", which claims to be functional back to MacOS 8.1. (I'm running
8.6)
That was fairly painless. Now that I've got it installed, I'm slamming
face-first into a brick wall at high velocity - After diddling file
types per the docs for MacPython, I double-click the
"btdownloadheadless.py" file that the FAQ for BitTorrent says should run
for me, and I get a window opening up with this:
Python 2.2.3 (#139, Jun 1 2003, 23:11:08) [CW CARBON GUSI2 THREADS GC]
on mac
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Megalon City
Iownloads:BitTorrent-3.2.1b:btdownloadheadless.py", line 6, in ?
from BitTorrent.download import download
File "Megalon City
Iownloads:BitTorrent-3.2.1b:BitTorrent:download.py", line 23, in ?
from os import getpid, path, makedirs
ImportError: cannot import name getpid
and nothing further happens.
Looks pretty obvious that something it wants can't be found. At this
point in my Python "career", I don't have a freakin' clue what, where to
tell it to look for it, or even *HOW* to tell it to look for it!
Anybody wanna to throw this newbie a bone?
Yes, I realize this is quite vague. Quite frankly, I don't know enough
about the language to even properly describe the problem.
So can Somebody please lend a hand here? Before you're forced to taunt
me a second time!
(Hey! Quit throwing those tomatoes! The docs said Monty Python
references are not only acceptable, but *ENCOURAGED*! )