Connection issue with nfldb

[teamfball]

I’ve been around 18 months or so exclusively using nflgame, ignoring nfldb until yesterday. Using Windows XP, I successfully installed the DB using ochawkeys’s instructions. https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/wiki/Windows-Install , imported the data, and installed nfldb using pip. However, ochawkeys’s final two steps 14 and 15 are failing due to a connection problem….I think?

C:\Python27\Scripts>python top-ten-qbs.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "top-ten-qbs.py", line 3, in <module>
    db = nfldb.connect()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 104, in connect
    raise IOError("Could not find valid configuration file.")
IOError: Could not find valid configuration file.

C:\Python27\Scripts>python nfldb-update
STARTING NFLDB UPDATE AT 2014-07-19 07:26:46.316000
Connecting to nfldb... Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "nfldb-update", line 441, in <module>
    doit()
  File "nfldb-update", line 420, in doit
    db = nfldb.connect()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 104, in connect
    raise IOError("Could not find valid configuration file.")
IOError: Could not find valid configuration file.

[teamfball]

Sorry , just read my own issue.

Could not find valid configuration file.

I failed to rename the config file

[BurntSushi]

I'm glad you figured it out. :-) And glad you're giving nfldb a whirl!

The error message wasn't extremely helpful. I pushed a new release that will show the paths that nfldb tried to search for a config file.

[ochawkeye]

Step 11 of the install instructions was a bit ambiguous as well. I've updated to hopefully make it more clear.

[BurntSushi]

@ochawkeye Thanks! :)