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Originally Posted by don1reed
My sys os is W/7 and for some reason, due to permissions authority, it was not allowing the Python script to write to Stellarium. It wouldn't let me edit any of the *.ssc files unless I physically drug them from the "My Computer" focus box to the desktop and modified them there.
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Sounds like you have Stellarium inside the Program Files folder. Hmm, IGD too perhaps, then I guess there is another difference why it works easier on my end.
Microsoft chose to protect the Program Files folder with good intentions, by preventing malware from infesting it without the users notice, but man can this be a pain in the stern if you want to do things deliberately. In XP it allready has a more basic kind of protection, but since every user in it by default becomes an administrator, nobody noticed these restrictions. In Vista and 7 the first user account that is created at installation is only administrator by default. (And there is a buit-in administrator account, but disabled) All following become ordinary users, unless manually made a member of the administrators group.
@I'm Going Down
I agree the procedure could use an update. But ultimately it's only 6SJ7GT that can edit hit first message. Also, It would be important to know what went wrong on your end exactly with Python itself. I explained that I did nothing special during install (well, aside from a different folder location) but that didn't seem to help you. (assuming you actually did follow that advice at some point) You reported that you couldn't find any executable with which you could run it (python.exe). Did you eventually find it? And were you eventually able to get the programming environment to start itself(there should have been a IDLE.bat somewhere to run it; without using any kind of SH4toStellarium script or Stellarium config file for the moment) Sofar we only know that Don1Reed fixed, ... updated his Stellarium. ... And shaved his legs.
But what steps you took I did not get enough feedback on. And you were the one having the problems.