[Chris Bainbridge]
>> I noticed the following error installing Gentoo / python 2.3.5:
>>
>> byte-compiling
>
/var/tmp/portage/zodb-3.5.0/image/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/zope/testi
ng/testrunner-ex/sample2/sampletests_f.py
>> to sampletests_f.pyc byte-compiling
>
/var/tmp/portage/zodb-3.5.0/image/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/zope/testi
ng/testrunner-ex/sample2/sampletests_i.py
>> to sampletests_i.pyc
>> File
"usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/zope/testing/testrunner-ex/sample2/samplete
sts_i.py",
>> line 15
>> importx unittest
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax ...
[Tim Peters]
> Ah, fudge. That's a genuine syntax error in the zope.testing file
> named (it says "importx" instead of "import").
>
> Jim, know immediately what's up with that? Is the syntax error
> intentional? Why doesn't it cause the zope.testing tests to fail
> (sampletest_i.py can't be compiled or imported)?
Looks like it's intentional. The zope.testing tests expect to see this
syntax error. Unfortunately, distutils tries to compile all .py files.
> I'm afraid this affects all projects that stitch in zope.testing from
>
> svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing
>
> which includes all versions of ZODB >= 3.4.
OTOH, it appears harmless. Yes, you get a nuisance complaint, but it
shouldn't hurt the installation any.
> Chris, until this is straightened out, try passing the
>
> --no-compile
>
> option to your "setup.py install" command, e.g.
>
> python setup.py install --no-compile
>
> ...
Heh. Sorry about that, I was going by the docs; --no-compile doesn't appear
to have any effect in reality; I opened a Python bug report on this:
http://www.python.org/sf/1290382
Oh, double fudge. This doesn't appear to be a distutils problem after all
-- it seems to be unique to setup.py thingies created _by_ Zope's zpkgtools.
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