Issue 233259: Ugly traceback for DistutilsPlatformError (original) (raw)

Created on 2001-02-20 16:23 by gward, last changed 2022-04-10 16:03 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg3513 - (view)	Author: Greg Ward (gward)	Date: 2001-02-20 16:23
From Chad Lester: > I was setting up a new redhat machine, and had forgotten to install the > python-devel rpm. The distutils provide a fairly ugly stack trace / error > message. Luckily, it meant something to me... but it's not terribly user > friendly! > > ... > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line > 368, in get_config_vars > func() > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/sysconfig.py", line > 280, in _init_posix > raise DistutilsPlatformError, my_msg > distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python > installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile (No such > file or directory) > >
msg3514 - (view)	Author: Greg Ward (gward)	Date: 2001-02-20 16:24
This only applies for people installing Distutils under Python 1.5.2, so it will only be fixed if there is another Distutils release to support 1.5.2 -- which is unlikely.
msg3515 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2001-12-06 16:18
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 Greg, I don't understand your last comment on this bug. Surely the traceback will still be ugly for people running Python 2.2 or whatever who don't have the python-devel RPM installed? I don't see how this is only a 1.5.2 or a "installing Distutils" question.
msg3516 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-11-04 13:54
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 A simple fix is in the attached patch; it simply adds DistutilsPlatformError to the list of the exception classes caught by core.setup(). However, maybe that exception handler should catch DistutilsError, instead of listing a few particular subclasses of it. Some subclasses represent internal errors or a bad setup file, but as users can always get the full traceback by setting the DISTUTILS_DEBUG environment variable, there seems little need to ever show the full traceback by default.
msg3517 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-11-08 16:19
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 I've checked in my proposed fix (the more liberal version that catches all DistutilsError exceptions) as revision 1.54 of distutils/core.py.