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Reputation: 13

Can't get pythonXY to work on my laptop

I'm migrating from Matlab to python so i decided to try the pythonxy distribution, but after installation i can't open it. When i double click on icon nothing happens. i already try to submite a issue on pythonxy page but didn't get any answer. Does anyone knows what this problem could be?

I'm using Win7 x64

this is the traceback information displayed on interactive console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\xyhome.pyw", line 21, in <module>
    xyhome.main()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xy\xyhome.pyw", line 689, in main
    form = MainWindow(options)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xy\xyhome.pyw", line 134, in __init__
    self.scanstartup()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xy\xyhome.pyw", line 574, in scanstartup
    default_startup()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xy\config.py", line 85, in default_startup

    filename = osp.join(STARTUP_PATH, CONF.get(None, 'startup'))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 109, in join
    path += "\\" + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 17: ordinal
 not in range(128)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3127

Answers (2)

Fredrik H&#229;&#229;rd
Fredrik H&#229;&#229;rd

Reputation: 2925

This is a known bug in pythonxy: http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/issues/detail?id=146

The problem is that your home path contains non-ASCII characters; you would probably have to run it from a user without non-ASCII chars in the home path to make it work for now, while there are patches in the bug report comments, they do not seem to work as intended.

Upvotes: 2

Alex Plugaru
Alex Plugaru

Reputation: 2249

Do you have any non-ascii characters in your path? If so, maybe you would like to change your installation path. It seems that it has a problem with the character "7".

>>> chr(231)
'\xe7'
>>> chr(55)
'7'

My guess is that your 7 in C:\Python27\ is not really a 7.

Upvotes: 0

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