New submission from techtonik :
Python 2.6 on Vista
C:\Python26\Scripts>python -m easy_install readline
Searching for readline
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/readline/
Reading http://www.python.org/
Best match: readline 2.6.4
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/readline/readline-2.6.4.tar.gz#md5=...
Processing readline-2.6.4.tar.gz
Running readline-2.6.4\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\myuser\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-yxalev\readline-2.6.4\egg-dist-tmp-7rtcal
The system cannot find the path specified.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python26\lib\runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "C:\Python26\lib\runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\easy_install.py", line 5, in <module>
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda>
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 995, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 211, in run
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 62, in run_setup
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 105, in run
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 64, in <lambda>
File "setup.py", line 93, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink'
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messages: 484
nosy: techtonik
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Traceback when installing readline
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