(I posted this earlier before joining the list, thinking it would get moderated in.)
I might have found a bug in the artifacts at http://people.apache.org/~cutting/avro-1.4.0-rc3/py. setup install ran cleanly. Then when I went to run our (cassandra) avro tests, I got this error: <some snipped> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/avro/ipc.py", line 35, in <module> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/avro/schema.py", line 702, in parse raise SchemaParseException('Error parsing JSON: %s' % json_string) SchemaParseException: Error parsing JSON: @HANDSHAKE_REQUEST_SCHEMA@ I was able to work around this (thanks Eric!) by downloading the full source, running ant from lang/py, and then run the python installer from lang/py/build. Basically, the artifacts don't include lib/simplejson, and it looks like they should. Gary Dusbabek
