HatGuy

Yesterday, I received the same uninformative message. On studying the apparently official setuptools install script the o.p. posted, I found a double negative. In the o.p.s code, line 66 in _install: if not _python_cmd('setup.py', 'install', *install_args): log.warn('Something went wrong during the installation.') log.warn('See the error message above.') # exitcode will …

I'm using Python 2.5.2 on a Ubuntu box for a research project based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database (1975-), available at [url]http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx[/url]. I found 115 characters of the form "\xzz" -- possibly hex? -- in 4+ card-image records on about 300k incidents from 1975-1981 so …

I'm an economics prof at a small, private college in Pennsylvania, USA. My computer experience goes back to the Control Data Corp 6400, complete with punch cards for JCL, FORTRAN, and SPSS, and time-share BASIC. I could even dial in from home (a Heathkit H-19 terminal) through a (gasp!) 110-baud …