[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a2016b29762c by Steve Dower in branch '3.5': Issue #25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a2016b29762c New changeset 07161dd8a078 by Steve Dower in branch

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Steve Dower added the comment: Ah, found it in the linked thread. I'll fix for 3.5.1. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Steve Dower added the comment: Do you have a full stack trace for that exception? I don't see anywhere that should be able to raise WinError in _find_vcvarsall. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Changes by Steve Dower : -- assignee: -> steve.dower components: +Windows keywords: +3.5regression nosy: +eric.araujo, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Changes by Steve Dower : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

New submission from Marius Gedminas: When you try to build a C extension on Windows without having a C compiler, distutils tries to raise DistutilsPlatformError("Unable to find vcvarsall.bat"). However, on Python 3.5, it doesn't do that -- instead it lets a WinError(2 "no such file or

[issue25316] distutils: broken error reporting about vcvarsall.bat

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +steve.dower -eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___