On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arve Knudsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Tarek > > Nevermind, there was a problem with the Python installation so that it > > didn't support zlib. Reinstalling Python fixed it :) Sorry for bothering > > you. It might be an idea to embellish distribute_setup.py though, so that > it > > detects that Python can't untar the gzipped archive (due to missing zlib > > support). That would've saved us some confusion at least :) > > Arve > > Oh.. mmm I think this should even be addressed in tarfile if possible: > if tarfile encounters a zipped archive, and zlib is not installed, it > should not return a cryptic > > tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully > > But an error like > > tarfile.ReadError: archive not supported (zlib not installed) > Of course, tarfile *should* address this. > And well, searching for this error in bugs.python.org, it looks like > it will be addressed soon: http://bugs.python.org/issue8978 Nice surprise :) However, it'll only help with fixed versions of Python, no? I figure distribute aims to support older Pythons as well. Arve
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