[IPython-user] installation problem

[Fernando Perez]

On 5/9/07, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your python is too old.

No, he's using 2.3, which we claim is the minimum required version.
So this particular ball is in our court.

> Jorgen should probably fix pyreadline to not demand "set" as being
> being automatically available though.

Yup.  The right solution is to write the code in pyreadline as

try:
  set
except NameError:
  # for 2.3
  from sets import Set as set

While I realize that  2.3 is getting old, I see no reason at this
point to break that compatibility when the fix is an easy one for us.

Cheers,

f