Hi Richard,
The exercise was to find a Python project and read through the source
code and see how much I can understand. They suggested to go out onto
http://www.bitbucket.org or some other place where you can find Python
projects and find some code. Since I keep holding out hope that I will
understand enough Python to contribute to NVDA some day, I figured I'd
see if I could get the source code and start looking at it. That's it.
Thanks.
Jim
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*Sent:* Friday, October 26, 2012 10:28 PM
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*Subject:* [program-l] Re: Python: Installing bzr Package From Source
Hi Jim,
Sorry, but I am clueless on this. If this is an exercise though, it
should not be too difficult to do.
Which problem is this?
Richard
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*From:*Homme, James <mailto:james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To:*program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:*Friday, October 26, 2012 8:38 AM
*Subject:*[program-l] Python: Installing bzr Package From Source
Hi,
Bzr is the package NVDA-project.org uses to store and retrieve its
source code.
I was going to attempt to read the Python source code in NVDA, just to
see what I can understand at my current learning level, because I'm
interested, and Learn Python The Hard Way told me to do so for the
current exercise I'm working on. So I thought that NVDA would hold my
interest.
When I get the tar file extracted for bzr, it looks like there could
be different folders that contain versions of this package for
different operating systems. I'm unsure how to make sure that I get
the right stuff into my Python distribution. I originally downloaded
and tried to use the easy_setup program on the Python Package Index,
but when it ran the setup.py for bzr, bzr gave me an error and said to
use a command line parameter. I'm unsure how to get easy_setup to pass
the command line parameter on to the setup.py file from bzr, so that's
why I got the tar file. I was going to attempt to find the right stuff
from the tar file and attempt to copy it into my python's
site-packages folder, then run setup.py to get the stuff to go where
it's supposed to go.
I'm going to go for a walk to calm down. If anyone has advice, I'm all
ears. There has to be an easier way to deal with this that I'm just
not understanding.
Jim
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