Hi Michael!

I did run into similar problem the other way round: My Active State Python
Version was too old when I tried to install Visual Python. So I had to
upgrade too Active Python 2.1.1.212 to be able to install Visual Python.

After installing Visual Python you can use any Python Interpreter you want.
I have used Python 2.2a4 without a problem and 2.2b1 seams to work too (I'm
downloading it while writing this mail). The only thing you have to do is
to put the interpreter into different directory and to choose it in your
Visual Studio project settings.


P.S: Yipee !!! Python 2.2b1 really works with Visual Python:

When you get hold of Python 2.2b1 try the following (This script didn't
work in 2.2a4 because oveloading __str__ was broken).
This small script defines a new subclass of string called octetstring and
overloads the str() to return the string in hex.

from binascii import b2a_hex

class octetstring(str):
    def __str__(self):
        return b2a_hex(self)

o = octetstring('A')
print "o           :",o


When you are debbugging this script in Visual Python you get the following
output for  'o':

-    o    'A'  octetstring
+    .__add__  __add__ (method-wrapper)  method-wrapper
+    .__class__     octetstring (type)   type
+    .__class__     octetstring (type)   type
+    .__contains__  __contains__ (method-wrapper)  method-wrapper
+    .__delattr__   __delattr__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__dict__ {}   dictionary
+    .__eq__   __eq__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__ge__   __ge__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__getattribute__   __getattribute__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__getitem__   __getitem__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__getslice__  __getslice__ (method-wrapper)  method-wrapper
+    .__gt__   __gt__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__hash__ __hash__ (method-wrapper)      method-wrapper
+    .__init__ __init__ (method-wrapper)      method-wrapper
+    .__le__   __le__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__len__  __len__ (method-wrapper)  method-wrapper
+    .__lt__   __lt__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
     .__module__    '__main__'     str
+    .__mul__  __mul__ (method-wrapper)  method-wrapper
+    .__ne__   __ne__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__repr__ __repr__ (method-wrapper)      method-wrapper
+    .__rmul__ __rmul__ (method-wrapper)      method-wrapper
+    .__setattr__   __setattr__ (method-wrapper)   method-wrapper
+    .__str__  __str__ (instance method)      instance method
     [0]  'A'  str

cu andreas

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>  First, the ActivePython release *is* an Alpha, and it's designed
>  to be run side-by-side with an older version of Python.  So if
>  you want to run Visual Python you should install ActivePython
>  2.1.1.212 (latest release as I write this) as well, and then
>  try installing Visual Python.

>  Eric Promislow
>  EricP@[...].com


> > I am getting an error when I try to install VisualPython. It
> > posts an error message as soon as the installer starts that
> > says: "ActivePython not found."
> >
> > Background.
> >
> > I installed Visual Studio.net Beta 2
> > I installed ActivePython 2.2.0 Alpha 2 build 1
> > I tried to run the VisualPython installer and I got
> > the error message above.
> >
> > Any ideas what I did wrong?
> >
> > -Michael.