2009/12/18 P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>:

At 06:10 PM 12/17/2009 +0200, Eemeli Kantola wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm getting a crash in setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6 when trying to install an egg directly from SVN sources. This happens both on OSX and Ubuntu, versions:

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul  7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2

Command and stack trace: ...

So is this a bug? My fix is presumably only treating the symptoms, because I've got only little clue of what is happening in the code...

My guess is that you've got some other pkg_resources module on your sys.path, such as from an older version of setuptools.

Could you check the following from your Python prompt?

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import pkg_resources, setuptools print pkg_resources.__file__ print setuptools.__file__ print setuptools.__version__

Yes, thank you! Probably that was it, because after reinstalling setuptools 0.6c11, the problem went magically away. On OSX, setuptools was clearly somehow broken, but on Ubuntu side, there seemed to be no obvious problems before reinstalling:

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import pkg_resources, setuptools print pkg_resources.__file__ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py print setuptools.__file__ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/__init__.py print setuptools.__version__ 0.6c11

Anyway, problem solved.

Thanks.

Best, -Eemeli