[Distutils] Distutils fails to build

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Oisin O'Maley <ninja.gofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> There doesn't appear to be anything anything wrong with
> "distribute.egg-info/entry_points.txt"

It's the same file indeed.
..

> The error is thrown on both the Gentoo and PyPi version.
...

Ok. I cannot reproduce this.

>> >>> import pkg_resources
>> >>>
>> >>> list(pkg_resources.split_sections(open('distribute.egg-info/entry_points.txt').read()))
>
> This seems to run fine on both Gentoo and PyPi versions. But running "python
> setup.py egg_info" throws the same error as I mentioned above.

Can you show us the output ?  The error happens because
split_sections() returns at some point a (group, lines) where group is
None.

>>> import pkg_resources
>>> for group, lines in pkg_resources.split_sections(open('distribute.egg-info/entry_points.txt').read()):
...     if group is None and lines is not None:
...         print 'ha!'
...         print lines
...

You can also add a pdb in the code just before the raise, and call egg_info


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