[Python-3000] Py3k: error during 'make install' in py3k-struni ? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jul 25 19:26:45 CEST 2007

Afther checking out the py3k-struni branch, 'make install' issued this:

Compiling /usr/local/python/3.0/lib/python3.0/test/testtarfile.py ... *** SyntaxError: ('expected string, bytes found', ('/usr/local/python/3.0/lib/python3.0/test/testtarfile.py', 0, 0, None)) If this is expected to fail, please forget this. It should not faild but we know that it is failing. The module isn't easy to fix either. I spent about an hour on tarfile.py without any luck. It's a beast and seems to be rather old style code from the Python 1.x days.

Don't despair, the white knight in shining armor might not be too far away to safe you from the dragon :-)

Seriously, Lars Gustäbel (CC'ed) has always been quite helpful in fixing whatever problem arise with the tarfile module.

Lars, do you have a chance to look at porting the module to 3k/struni?

Regards, Martin

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