New submission from Paul "TBBle" Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Basically, if DISTUTILS_USE_SDK is set in the environment and an extension is attempted to be built from within the Windows SDK shell (ie. MSSdk is set in the environment as well), msvc9compiler.py will raise an exception due to a reference to the undefined self.__paths in MSVCCompiler.find_exe class, called from MSVCCompiler.initialize. self.__paths is used both in MSVCCompiler.find_exe and further through MSVCCompiler.initialize, but only exists if the else branch of the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK if/else is taken. I've attached a patch which trivially fixes this by setting self.__paths to [] before the test for DISTUTILS_USE_SDK. However, the use of MSVCCompiler.find_exe in this test might be wrong. Short of raising an exception, MSVCCompiler.find_exe always returns what it is supplied if it can't find anything better. So testing the truth of this value is likely incorrect. (I assume that find_exe used to return a false value if the requested program could not be found on the path or in self.__paths[]...) If the find_exe is removed from the test, then the setting of self.__paths can be done inside the if branch, paralleling the else branch. ---------- components: Distutils files: msvc9compiler-windowssdk.diff keywords: patch messages: 72209 nosy: TBBle severity: normal status: open title: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an exception versions: Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11318/msvc9compiler-windowssdk.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3741> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com