Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
The email package has two files to help it maintain compatibility with Python 2.1 and Python 2.2+. There's a _compat21.py and a _compat22.py that contains tricky bits that are different between the two Python versions. Other code that needs something out of these modules, first tries to import _compat22.py, wrapping this import so that if errors occur, it backs down to _compat21.py.
The problem comes when I do "python2.1 setup.py install", which tries to bytecompile all the .py files. Naturally Python 2.1 won't be able to compile _compat22.py and indeed you get a SyntaxError.
Is there a way -- in my setup.py -- that I can first detected which Python version I'm using (should be easy), and then skip byte compilation of _compat22.py when I find I'm using Python 2.1?
Not builtin, but it should be easy to write your own subclass which implements this. Note that the installers sometimes use their own code to byte-compile files late during the install. You can only either choose to disable the compile completely or live with the SyntaxError (if the installers let you ;-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/