623980 - SDK: bin\activate.bat doesn't find python, but it is installed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

After installing the add-on SDK 1.0b1, I read the readme and wanted to run it on Windows XP SP 3 32-bit. Python 2.6.5, 2.7.1, 3.1.3 are installed.

After switching to the add-on SDK directory, running bin\activate.bat like described in the README throws an error in German:

Fehler: Der angegebene Registrierungsschlüssel oder Wert konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Der Befehl "python" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden.

Translated:
"Error: The given registry key or value could not be found.
The command "python" is either written wrong or could not be found."

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath exists and the value is F:\Software\Programmierung\Python\Python26\

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

If you enter "PATH" (without the quotes) in a command prompt, what exactly is listed?

Comment 2

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

PATH=F:\Software\Programmierung\Editoren\Komodo Edit\;F:\Software\Programmierung
\TeX\MiKTeX\miktex/bin;C:\Programme\REALTEK Semiconductor Corp.\Realtek Fast Eth
ernet Adapter Driver;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\
Programme\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Tel
eca Shared;C:\Programme\Intuwave\Shared\mRouterRuntime;C:\WINDOWS\system32\Windo
wsPowerShell\v1.0;F:\Software\Basis\GTK\bin

(I dropped Python 2.6 since filing this bug but still have 2.7 installed).

Python is not added automatically to the PATH variable, see http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html#finding-the-python-executable

Comment 3

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

I don't believe Python 3.1 is supported yet.

I normally just start up a console using the shortcuts that mozillabuild ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#MozillaBuild ) creates, and then everything seems to work alright.

Not really a "solution", but would probably work as a workaround, if uninstalling Python 3.1 doesn't work.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Can you please at it to readme file? As Python 2.7.1 doesn't seem to act different than 2.6 and the problem also happened with 2.6 when I reported the bug, it doesn't depend on the Python version.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(automatic reprioritization of 1.0 bugs)

Comment 6

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(Pushing all open bugs to the --- milestone for the new triage system)

Comment 7

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Unassigning myself from bugs I am not actively working on.

Comment 8

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

I suspect this has been fixed by way of bug 700388.

Comment 9

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

aryx: can you reproduce the problem with the latest version of the SDK?

Comment 10

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

It's fixed with SDK 1.4.3