[Distutils] setuptools still supported on Python 2.3?

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 9 17:15:31 CEST 2009


At 07:43 AM 4/9/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>I noticed when installing setuptools on Python 2.3 that easy_install
>fails because it tries to import subprocess, which is a new module in
>2.4. I personally do not need Python 2.3 support any longer, but the
>docs say it should be supported, which seems to be only partly true.
>
>The rest of setuptools seems to work on Python 2.3 still, although I
>haven't tried it in practice. But the tests run.

There is no code in setuptools itself that uses subprocess.  Are you 
sure it's not a plugin, or the package you're installing?



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