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Originally Posted by epstewart
Ed, Howard, et al.:
I went back to square one and deleted /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ on my system and then reinstalled Python 2.6 and then PyCrypto from their respective downloaded installers ... and everything is working fine now!
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Anyway, thanks for all your help.
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I'm very glad to hear that you're working now!
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Now that I'm up and running, I'd like to ask for some clarifications about how all this works. First, I note that the original post said to rename my .pyw files and change their extensions to .py. What was that for? What is the significance of the "w" which I had to strip away?
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The .pyw extension stands for 'Python for Windows' and it goes back to Microsoft's old limitation of 3 letter file extensions. The limit is no longer there, but it's kept that way for historical reasons. Macs (and Unix in general) uses .py
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Two, am I correct in saying that I can't run on a Mac the script that creates the adeptkey.der file, that it has to be run under Windows? Why is that? It would seem to be a major drawback, since a lot of Mac users don't have access to Windows. (I happen to be able to run Windows under Parallels Desktop, so I was able to get around this problem.)
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The key is stored in a plain text file in clear text. Howard's PM should sort you out.
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Three, in installing PyCrypto, the associated README file suggests there is a need to run python setup.py build and python setup.py install. I find (1) only the latter is needed;
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A dependency for installation is the file to install. The installer knows how to build it, so if you try to install without building, it will build automagically.
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(2) after a successful install of Python 2.6, invoking python from the command line in Terminal in fact uses Python 2.6, which is good;
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Your mileage may vary. I've done the install and it keeps 2.5 as the default python. Maybe there's a preference pane that controls it, I haven't checked.
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(3) I had to include the full path to setup.py, i.e., /Users/eric/Desktop/INEPT/pycrypto-2.0.1/setup.py, by dragging the Finder icon of that file to the Terminal window. Does that square with your understanding?
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I've never tried dragging things to the terminal window, it seems fishy to me. From the shell, I just `cd` to the right directory and take it from there.
- Ed