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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">To whom this may concern;<br>
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I am contacting you in the hope that I may provide help to others by addressing a possible, very small bug (assuming I diagnosed and solved the issue correctly). No need to contact me since I consider my solution as sufficient.
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I ran into an exception today from a program running plaftorm.py using python version 2.7.5. Here is the code in platform.py that produced the exception (line 1454)<br>
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match = _sys_version_parser.match(sys_version)<br>
if match is None:<br>
raise ValueError(<br>
'failed to parse CPython sys.version: %s' %<br>
repr(sys_version))<br>
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This results from the following regular expression:<br>
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_sys_version_parser = re.compile(<br>
r'([\w.+]+)\s*'<br>
'\|[^|]*\|\s*' # version extra<br>
'\(#?([^,]+),\s*([\w ]+),\s*([\w :]+)\)\s*'<br>
'\[([^\]]+)\]?')<br>
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At least on my computer, CPython does not have "version extra". So I simply removed the second part of the regular expression and put it into a new object:<br>
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_cpython_sys_version_parser = re.compile(<br>
r'([\w.+]+)\s*'<br>
'\(#?([^,]+),\s*([\w ]+),\s*([\w :]+)\)\s*'<br>
'\[([^\]]+)\]?')<br>
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I then called this object for cpython, and it appears to have worked (fingers crossed).<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Brandon Zerbe<br>
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