[Distutils] newbie bootstrap question

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:20 PM, David Kim wrote:

> Sorry to ask, but I'm having with the first step of the buildout  
> process, the bootstrap.py script. I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):   File "bootstrap.py", line 76,  
> in <module>      
> ws.find(pkg_resources.Requirement.parse('setuptools')).location  
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'location'
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea why this error is occurring. I am  
> running on OS X Leopard and was just trying to bootstrap an empty  
> buildout.cfg file to get things started. Tried googling the error,  
> but nothing came up.
>
> Any pointers?


My guess is that you have setuptools installed in your python that  
wasn't installed as an egg.   What is the output of running the  
following Python script:

   import pkg_resources
   ws  = pkg_resources.working_set
   print ws.find(pkg_resources.Requirement.parse('setuptools'))

?

The bootstrap script has a try/except that tries to import pkg_utils.   
If the import succeeds, it assumes that setiuptools is already  
installed.  Try replacing the try/except with the contents of the  
except.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation