[Eric] screwed up my python install

[Ken Dere]

trying to solve one problem, I created a bunch of others.  I have mostly
recovered except when eric is installed.

I get the error:

import site # precompiled from
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc                                                                               

'import site' failed;
traceback:                                                                                                           

Traceback (most recent call
last):                                                                                                         

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/site.py", line 73, in
<module>                                                                  
   
__boot()                                                                                                                               

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/site.py", line 48, in
__boot                                                                    
   
addsitedir(item)                                                                                                                       

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 185, in
addsitedir                                                                             

    addpackage(sitedir, name,
known_paths)                                                                                                 

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 155, in
addpackage                                                                             

    exec
line                                                                                                                              

  File "<string>", line 1, in
<module>                                                                                                     

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'setdefaultencoding'                                                                      


it looks like when python is started, it tries to import everything
twice.  when eric is imported the first time, it deletes the method
'setdefaultencoding' so that on the 2nd go around, it is missing.

any idea what I can do to fix this?

thanks,

Ken Dere

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Kenneth P. Dere
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