New submission from Michael Clerx :
The unicode C-API documentation has a deprecation warning on this page:
https://docs.python.org/3.9/c-api/unicode.html#deprecated-py-unicode-apis
stating some functions are
Deprecated since version 3.3, will be removed in version 4.0.
But as far as I
Michael Clerx added the comment:
I'm seeing this bug in 2.7.9. The reason seems to be that the version detection
doesn't work...
This snippet:
out = os.popen(gcc_exe + ' -dumpversion', 'r')
out_string = out.read()
returns an empty out_string, causing gcc_v
Michael Clerx added the comment:
Thanks!
If I do copy this patch, do I need to add anything to my license text other
than a reference in the file itself?
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Python tracker
<http://bugs.python.org/issue23
Michael Clerx added the comment:
@Mark I don't quite understand what you're saying. Distutils supports it,
provided you add a line to distutils.cfg. I've been using the PythonXY versions
of Python with MinGW (everything before 2.7.9.0) to happily compile for nearly
4 years
Michael Clerx added the comment:
Thanks! However, importing setuptools causes a string of errors about
PYTHONPATH and .pth files (even on a linux system)
In addition, a monkeypatched version of find_vcvarsall allowed things to run,
but it seems finding plain C libraries with Visual C++ for
Michael Clerx added the comment:
Is there anyway to fix this without using setuptools? I'm using distutils to
compile on the fly which has worked brilliantly for the last few years, not
sure I want to destabilize everything by switching to setuptools.
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nosy: +Michael
