[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 05:28:39 CET 2009
David Cournapeau wrote:
> I don't understand what's there to buy. Several people reported
> distutils errors without any backtrace, though a fair shared of those
> were caused by our own extensions.
distutils specifically swallows exceptions and formats them for users by
default. After all, it is trying to behave like a regular command line program
that interacts with users, not developers. This is easily overridable for
developers who are trying debug problems by setting the environment variable
DISTUTILS_DEBUG=1. This will make distutils just give the traceback.
Is this what you are referring to?
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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