[IPython-user] installation problem

[Jörgen Stenarson]

Fernando Perez skrev:
> 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.
> 

I agree, I will try to fix this today.

/Jörgen