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

Lars Gustäbel lars at gustaebel.de
Thu Jul 26 00:54:41 CEST 2007

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

>>> 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 :-)

Yea, I heard that call :-)

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?

I just took a quick look at it, but I could not reproduce the above error message. However, it is obvious that tarfile.py is completely unusable in py3k-struni and it is my job to fix it, which seems to me far from trivial at the moment. I have to catch up with py3k development as well, so I am not able to estimate when the job will be done.

-- Lars Gustäbel lars at gustaebel.de

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