+1, want to submit a pull request?
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Abdeali Kothari <abdealikoth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, when a user installs cython, if the Python headers are not found, > an error message saying "Python.h: no such file or directory" is shown > (Example: https://justpaste.it/v0gz). Would it be possible to suggest an > action to install the headers ? > > I found http://trac.cython.org/ticket/247 which is quite old, and makes the > error message easier to find, but doesn't recommend a solution. > > `sys.platform`, `platform.linux_distribution` or `distro`[1] can be used to > find which OS, platform, etc is and use that to suggest a command like: > > if sys.version_info < (3, ) and sys.platform.startswith("linux") and > platform.linux_distribution()[0] in ("ubuntu", "debian"): > print("Python headers were not found. On Debian/Ubuntu, `sudo > apt-get install python-dev` should install the Python headers.") > > elif sys.version_info < (3, ) and sys.platform.startswith("linux") and > platform.linux_distribution()[0] in ("ubuntu", "debian"): > print("Python headers were not found. On Debian/Ubuntu, `sudo > apt-get install python3-dev` should install the Python3 headers.") > > This would help so that non-developers can use cython based packages easily > as it provides helpful instructions on what to do. Currently, you > essentially search for the error message and go to one of the forums/blogs > explaining what can be done. > > Or maybe by default it can just point the user to an Installation Page which > explains in detail what needs to be done to get those headers for various > systems ? > > [1] - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distro > > _______________________________________________ > cython-devel mailing list > cython-devel@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel > _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
