"Peter Hansen" wrote ...
"r.e.s." wrote:
No matter which site I download it from,
NumTut.tgz appears to be corrupted.
Anyone else having this problem?
Always describe the symptoms of a problem... what precise
behaviour (i.e. what extraction program, platform etc.) are
you encountering that leads you to believe it's corrupted?
Quite right, sorry.
I resolved the problem, but will explain what happened
in case others encounter something similar ...
The file called NumTut.tgz at the SourceForge.net
download server is, when downloaded, automatically
receiving the wrong file extension by winXP .
(WinZip then produces a file that looks like a .py
file corrupted by lots of 'unprintable' characters.)
That is, clicking NumTut.tgz for download results in
"You are requesting file: /numpy/NumTut.tgz
Please select a mirror"
but the winXP File Download window that comes up says
File name: NumTut.gz (sic)
File type: WinZip File
If renamed back to .tgz, WinZip decompresses it
properly, and I see that it's actually a number of
files which are python-importable when placed in
the folder ...\Numerical\NumTut.
(Also for other files from that site, I've sometimes
had to re-download when the file is found not to be
in recognizable format. This problem seems to occur
only for files downloaded from SourceForge, btw.)
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A related python question, if I may ...
With the various .py files in \Numerical\NumTut,
*none* of which are named NumTut.py, why does this
work? ...
from NumTut import *
Surely import doesn't use the folder name? As you
can see, I'm a beginner at python.
Thanks.
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r.e.s.
