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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>Steps to
re-create</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=953261618-27032009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>* Set up an
environment as per my previous email but <STRONG>without</STRONG> the egg
installed in site-packages.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>* Delete the egg
from the egg_repository so that the file we expect to see is missing, but is
still indicated in the html file which is used as the index of the egg
repository directory.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>* Try to easy
install the egg (as in previous example) and take note of the exception
raised.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=953261618-27032009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>My error is
here:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009><A
href="http://pastebin.com/m36b84d95">http://pastebin.com/m36b84d95</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=953261618-27032009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=953261618-27032009>I'm guessing that we
get a zipimporterror because the stream returned by the URL fetching fuction is
obviously not zip data. However in this case might it be more appropriate to
raise DistributionNotFound or some kind of special exception that more correctly
describes this situation?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=953261618-27032009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=953261618-27032009>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=953261618-27032009>Sal</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>