24 Oct
2005
24 Oct
'05
6:01 p.m.
Hi Mingfeng, Years ago we encouraged people to use the system Python installed on their computer when running Chimera. Now we discourage that and include Python with every Chimera distribution. Chimera uses about 20 compiled Python modules. We compile these modules against the version of Python we distribute. There were many problems when these modules were used with other Python distributions. Not only did minor version differences (2.4.1 versus 2.4.2) cause modules to break, but even having the exact same Python version compiled with a different compiler could cause things to break (eg. dynamic libraries might not have C++ code initialized). So we recommend only using the included Python when running Chimera. Tom