[issue19333] distutils.util.grok_environment_error loses the error message

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> distutils does not show any error msg when can't build C module extensions due to a missing C compiler ___ Python tracker

[issue19333] distutils.util.grok_environment_error loses the error message

Thomas Kluyver added the comment: Duplicate of issue 4931. This function should be entirely unnecessary now. -- nosy: +takluyver ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue19333] distutils.util.grok_environment_error loses the error message

New submission from Marius Gedminas: Steps to reproduce: $ python -c 'from distutils.util import grok_environment_error as e; print(e(IOError("message")))' What I expect to see: error: message What I get instead: error: None This is a problem because it hides the error message in a real-life