New submission from Aaron Gallagher <habnabit@gmail.com>: This is a bug in setuptools 0.6c9. Console output follows. ender:test habnabit$ easy_install oursql /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site- packages/Pyrex/Compiler/Errors.py:17: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6 self.message = message Searching for oursql Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/oursql/ Reading http://launchpad.net/oursql Best match: oursql 0.1 Downloading http://launchpad.net/oursql/trunk/0.1/+download/oursql-0.1.zip Processing oursql-0.1.zip Running oursql-0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/vt/vtsTQLkkFNCqREdN+o2BqE+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-H7Ob5k/oursql- 0.1/egg-dist-tmp-xuwDCz error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: open('/dev/null', 'w') {} The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted. This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available. ---------- messages: 459 nosy: habnabit priority: bug status: unread title: SandboxViolation when opening os.devnull _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue93> _______________________________________________