Python Essentials will not run in SPSS v. 21

[TerryConway]

Hi Jon,

I am using SPSS v.21 and have tried to follow every tip I could find on the internet to get Python Essentials to run so that I can mean-center a lot of variables. I can see "Mean Center Variables" under SPSS Utilities, but I always get the following error:

>Error # 6895.  Command name: begin program
>The Integration Plug-in for Python is configured to work with a different
>version of SPSS Statistics.  Please adjust the spss.pth and SpssClient.pth
>files so that the first line in each file specifies this version of SPSS
>Statistics.  SpssClient.pth and spss.pth are located in the Python
>site-packages directory.
>Execution of this command stops.

I have located those 2 files and have modified the first lines to have various versions of 210, 21.0, 21.0.,21.0.0.0 but nothing I have done has changed the error I get (always the above).

Any advice you have that would help me be able to use Python Essentials would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Terry

[peter link]

Kind of a shot in the dark - make sure you are using the correct version of
Python (v2.7; I think v.2.7.2 is recommended) with SPSS v21.

peter

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Python Essentials will not run in SPSS v. 21

Hi Jon,

I am using SPSS v.21 and have tried to follow every tip I could find on the
internet to get Python Essentials to run so that I can mean-center a lot of
variables. I can see "Mean Center Variables" under SPSS Utilities, but I
always get the following error:

>Error # 6895.  Command name: begin program The Integration Plug-in for
>Python is configured to work with a different version of SPSS
>Statistics.  Please adjust the spss.pth and SpssClient.pth files so
>that the first line in each file specifies this version of SPSS
>Statistics.  SpssClient.pth and spss.pth are located in the Python
>site-packages directory.
>Execution of this command stops.

I have located those 2 files and have modified the first lines to have
various versions of 210, 21.0, 21.0.,21.0.0.0 but nothing I have done has
changed the error I get (always the above).

Any advice you have that would help me be able to use Python Essentials
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Terry



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[David Marso]

This is something which can be done quite easily in regular syntax.
Why bother with python for this?
/* simulate some data */.
MATRIX.
SAVE UNIFORM(10000,1000) /OUTFILE * / VARIABLES x0001 TO x1000.
END MATRIX.

/* If you already have a unique identifier for each record in the file then omit the following line */.
COMPUTE ID=$CASENUM.
VARSTOCASES MAKE x FROM x0001  TO x1000 /INDEX=varname(x).
AGGREGATE OUTFILE * MODE ADDVARIABLES / BREAK Varname /MeanValue=MEAN(x).
COMPUTE x=x-MeanValue.
MATCH FILES / FILE * / DROP MeanValue.
CASESTOVARS ID=ID / INDEX=varname.

TerryConway wrote

Hi Jon,

I am using SPSS v.21 and have tried to follow every tip I could find on the internet to get Python Essentials to run so that I can mean-center a lot of variables. I can see "Mean Center Variables" under SPSS Utilities, but I always get the following error:

>Error # 6895.  Command name: begin program
>The Integration Plug-in for Python is configured to work with a different
>version of SPSS Statistics.  Please adjust the spss.pth and SpssClient.pth
>files so that the first line in each file specifies this version of SPSS
>Statistics.  SpssClient.pth and spss.pth are located in the Python
>site-packages directory.
>Execution of this command stops.

I have located those 2 files and have modified the first lines to have various versions of 210, 21.0, 21.0.,21.0.0.0 but nothing I have done has changed the error I get (always the above).

Any advice you have that would help me be able to use Python Essentials would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Terry