[omniORB] New user with Windows XP, omniORB-4.0.7 and Python2.4

[Luke Deller]

Hi Dave,

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:20 +0000, Hunt, Dave wrote:
...
> C:\omniORB-4.0.7\src\tool\omniidl\python\scripts>omniidl -v -bcxx
> -C"C:\\omniORB-4.0.7\\src\\examples\\ssl_echo" -Wbh=.h -Wbs=SK
> .cpp -Wbd=DynSK.cpp -Wba-Wbtp -Wbuse_quotes
> -I"C:\\omniORB-4.0.7\\src\\examples\\ssl_echo"
> "C:\\omniORB-4.0.7\\src\\examples\\ss
> l_echo\\echo.idl"
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\os.py", line 38
>     return [n for n in dir(module) if n[0] != '_']
>                 ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This error indicates that you are running a version of python prior to
2.0 which is trying to use the python library for version 2.4.

I don't use the binary distribution of omniORB so I'm not exactly sure
how it's set up, but I suspect omniidl in that distribution is using an
included ancient version of python.  Try running it without setting the
PYTHONPATH environment variable so that the ancient python version can
use its own python library.

Regards,
Luke.

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