On Wednesday 15 September 2010, it occurred to Paul Watson to exclaim: > So, what is not a regular file about this? Is there any way to find out > which files are being considered irregular?
Regular files are the kind of files used to store bytes. Other kinds of files you might find in a file system include: directories symbolic links pipes (FIFOs) sockets (UNIX/LOCAL domain) character devices block devices Also, for help on interpreting the message at hand, see Lawrence d'Oliveiro's response. > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 pwatson 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin > > $ cat setup.py > > from distutils.core import setup > > setup( > name='xlsexport', > version='0.3', > > py_modules=['xlsexport'] > ) > 20:47 pwatson [ pwatson:/cygdrive/c/Users/pwatson/bin/xlsexport] 12 > $ python setup.py sdist > running sdist > warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: url > warning: sdist: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or > (maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied > reading manifest file 'MANIFEST' > creating xlsexport-0.3 > making hard links in xlsexport-0.3... > ' not a regular file -- skipping > ' not a regular file -- skipping > ' not a regular file -- skipping > tar -cf dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar xlsexport-0.3 > gzip -f9 dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar > removing 'xlsexport-0.3' (and everything under it) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list