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From: "Dockeen" <dockeen AT mchsi DOT com>
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Subject: Python Lesson Learned
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:14:52 +0600
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I noticed something interesting this evening.  I was playing
with the Cygwin version of dislin.  I got everything going for
C and Perl, but Python was complaining of an interpreter
mismatch.

I did a python -v, and saw it was reporting using a flavor of release
2.1.  Now, after flailing around a little bit with uninstalling
and reinstalling Python, I finally used my anemic brain and noticed
something important.  Somehow (probably through incompetence or
fumble fingering by me), I had ended up with two installations
of Python, one in /usr/local/bin, and the newer one in /usr/bin,
and the older one was being found first.  I deleted the older
stuff and now things are working well with dislin. (Oh yeah, 
python -v reports version 2.2 being used too).

I don't know how many folks out there use Python in Cygwin, but
I thought my misfortune might be of use to someone some day, even
if only for humor value.

Wayne Keen

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