At 11:13 AM 10/25/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:

I'm getting this error with setuptools trunk and pydoc/help():

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import unittest help(unittest.main) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-2.4.egg/site.py" , line 339, in __call__

File "/home/ianb/env/webdev/lib/python2.4/setuptools-0.7a1dev_r58373-py2.4.egg/pydoc.py", line 1645, in __call__ self.help(request) File "/home/ianb/env/webdev/lib/python2.4/setuptools-0.7a1dev_r58373-py2.4.egg/pydoc.py", line 1689, in help else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:') File "/home/ianb/env/webdev/lib/python2.4/setuptools-0.7a1dev_r58373-py2.4.egg/pydoc.py", line 1468, in doc desc = describe(object) File "/home/ianb/env/webdev/lib/python2.4/setuptools-0.7a1dev_r58373-py2.4.egg/pydoc.py", line 1413, in describe if inspect.isgetsetdescriptor(thing): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'isgetsetdescriptor'

I'm guessing its something in Python 2.5's inspect but not 2.4.

Fixed. (Please don't send setuptools bug reports to me in private email; the distutils-sig is where they go, to minimize duplicates, have a public record, and at least entertain the possibility that someone else might know of a fix, workaround, or be able to contribute a patch.)