Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com added the comment:
I suggest to:
- Print path to the .pth file, which causes exception. Current traceback
doesn't help in finding the cause of problem:
# echo import nonexistent /usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/some_file.pth
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
I like the suggestion of turning it into a warning, myself, but you are right
that at the least the error message should be improved.
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resolution: invalid -
stage: committed/rejected - needs patch
status: closed - open
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Aren’t there studies that show that people don’t read warnings? I’m +0 on a
warning and +1 on an error.
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STINNER Victor victor.stin...@haypocalc.com added the comment:
Yes, I patched the C code to not clear exceptions anymore at startup: r78826
(issue #3137). But this issue is different: here the bug is in the 3rd party
module (loaded by site.py), not in Python, and Donald proposes to *ignore*
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com:
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resolution: - invalid
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status: open - closed
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components: +Library (Lib) -Distutils2
type: crash - behavior
versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2
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Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com:
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
If the problem is in site.py it doesn't sound like a distutils bug at all. I
remember Victor doing something that changed the error handling/reporting when
importing site.py, so I'm adding him as nosy. I thought that was only in 3.x,
New submission from Donald Wallace Rouse II python-bugs-as92...@dwr2.org:
Python 2.7 programs crash on startup due to a defective third-party package
installed in site-packages.
starting python 2.7 yields the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
