Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

I’m inclined to reject the bug: 
http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref#distutils.core.setup clearly says that 
the argument should be a dictionary.  The code in pyreadline should set it to 
an empty dict instead of None.  While it can be argued that providing clearly 
helpful messages is a service for our users, especially given that people 
writing setup scripts may be beginners, it seems to me that adding type 
checking would not be the Python way.  Raymond, what do you think?

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components: +Distutils2 -Distutils
nosy: +alexis, rhettinger
versions: +3rd party -Python 3.2

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