Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Please report such problems on our bug tracker: http://bugs.python.org/ In your case, Python doesn't appear to find the (right) libz shared library, which is a bit odd, but it's better to track this down on the tracker :-) On 16.02.2017 21:33, Patrick Wallinger wrote: > I'm brand new to python a

Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Patrick Wallinger
Oleg, After installing a fresh zlib package from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/zlib1g I was able to build and install Python-3.6.0 seems to me if the zlib module sent out with the 3.6.0 release package doesn't build (which it doesn't) then that's a bug. thanks for your time, Patrick On

Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hello. We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); if you're having problems learning, understanding or using Python, please find another forum. Probably python-list/comp.lang.python mailing list/

Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Patrick Wallinger wrote: > zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available > There may very well be a bug here of the form of "zlib dependency is considered soft, but then something else breaks". However, in your current situation, my recommend

[Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Patrick Wallinger
I'm brand new to python and was trying to install the newest version (3.6.0) on my ubuntu 16.04.1 but couldn't get it to build error free. I tried searching the bugs but didn't see a match for what I am seeing. Thanks for any help, Patrick Here is the report: patrick@ubuntu-MacBook:~/Programs/Pyt