New submission from <--This Guy: So far I've noticed this is only reproducible when running quickly with python2.7. Still, the error message seems like it would be confusing to new users to Python.
user@host:~/foo/bar/project$ sudo python setup.py install DEBUG: Adding /foo/bar/project to system path. ERROR: Python module settings not found ERROR: Python module settings not found .... # basically, more DistUtilsExtra errors... running install DEBUG: Adding /foo/bar/project to system path. running build running build_py running build_scripts running build_i18n DEBUG: Desktop files: ['project.desktop.in'] intltool-update -p -g ryode running build_icons running build_help running install_lib copying build/lib/__init__.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages copying build/lib/ryode/__init__.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ryode byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/__init__.py to __init__.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ryode/__init__.py to __init__.pyc running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.7/project -> /usr/local/bin changing mode of /usr/local/bin/project to 775 running install_data copying build/share/applications/project.desktop -> /usr/local/share/applications running install_egg_info Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/project-0.1-py2.7.egg-info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/project-0.1-py2.7.egg-info Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 144, in <module> cmdclass={'install': InstallAndUpdateDataDirectory} File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_distutils_extra-2.38-py2.7.egg/DistUtilsExtra/auto.py", line 100, in setup distutils.core.setup(**attrs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "setup.py", line 116, in run target_data = '/' + os.path.relpath(self.install_data, self.root) + '/' File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 437, in relpath start_list = [x for x in abspath(start).split(sep) if x] File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 367, in abspath if not isabs(path): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 61, in isabs return s.startswith('/') AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith' ---------- components: Build messages: 212457 nosy: jordannh priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: isabspath fails if path is None type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20809> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com