[Twisted-Python] Question regarding widgets

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Tue,  5 Nov 2002 15:54:46 +0800, "lals;dfjsd" <twisted_low at contact.com.my> wrote:

> I am newbie with some background using zope. I am trying to use twisted in a
> web application that is going to be launched in my office. Problem now is
> that i cannot get the example to work ( Example ) .....

Can you expound a little more on which example you're talking about?  "the
example [...] (Example)" is not very specific in a framework as large as
Twisted.

> Specs :

> 1. os --> windows 98
> 2. python --> python-2.2.2

It should work, though I would recommend upgrading to a more sane version of
Windows whenever you've got the chance :-)

> This is my autoexec.bat :

> @SET PYTHONPATH=C:\python22\lib\site-packages\twisted\
> @SET PYTHONPATH=C:\web2\TWISTEDQUOTES\;C:\WEB2\MOHAN_KOTEH\

@echo %PYTHONPATH%

will probably show you that your PYTHONPATH is
"C:\web2\TWISTEDQUOTES\;C:\WEB2\MOHAN_KOTEH"; if you want to add things to the
path rather than reset it entirely, you want it to look like:

    @SET PYTHONPATH=C:\python22\lib\site-packages\twisted\
    @SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;C:\web2\TWISTEDQUOTES\;C:\WEB2\MOHAN_KOTEH\

IIRC.  However, I don't understand what you're trying to do here.  If you have
Twisted installed in your C:\python22\lib\site-packages (as with setup.py or
the .exe installer) then you shouldn't be adding anything to your PYTHONPATH to
get 'twisted' to import.

> i can't seem to get the Example even to compile and looking through the docs
> doesn't seem to help much. One question can i use the --personal option on a
> windows machine ?

No.  Windows doesn't have the notion of unix sockets.  Even if you could, there
wouldn't be much of a point: windows security (especially on 9x!) is even more
of a disaster than UNIX, so separating privileges between processes doesn't
help much of anything if you're running them on the same machine.

Why do you think you want the --personal option?  It's designed for multi-user
servers where you've got lots of different people running webservers and you
want them all to be accessible through port 80.

> I get an error that says it cannot find the pwd module. Can someone please
> help me or at least point me somewhere where there are some docs ???

The pwd module is for determining your UNIX username and home directory (which,
surprise, you don't have ^_^).  The --personal option is pretty much useless to
you.

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