Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On 5 March 2013 13:36, Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > What I'm doing is checking out distribute, then trying to install it > > into a temporary directory. However, when I do this, I seem to be > > getting the files in python 2 form, *not* having been converted using > > 2to3. The resulting build is therefore broken. > > > > Can anyone suggest what might be going on here? I've been looking at > > this for hours now, and I'm no nearer to working out what is going on > > > > Any thoughts, anyone? Are there any distribute experts around? > > At the moment, the only option I can find for getting an "uninstalled" > distribute is setup.py build and then grab the contents of build/lib. > And that's a really ugly hack >
If it feels like you're yak shaving and you'd rather not be, you could look at distribute3 [1], which doesn't need 2to3. It was synchronised with distribute in Jan 2013, so it might work for you if you don't need some more recent functionality/bug-fix. Regards, Vinay Sajip [1] https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distribute3 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
