[IPython-dev] [Ipython-svndiff] 2688 - use subprocess for ipy_workdir'

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 13:13:17 EDT 2007


Hi Stefan,

On 8/30/07, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:15:32PM -0600, Fernando Perez wrote:
> > I just noticed this commit while checking recent SVN activity:
> >
> > On 8/29/07, ipython-svndiff at scipy.org <ipython-svndiff at scipy.org> wrote:
> >
> > > +import os, subprocess
> >
> > This is a problem: subprocess is a 2.4-only module, and we're trying
> > to remain available to 2.3 users.
>
> I tried running IPython under 2.3 before this change, and then already
> it gave up with
>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DocTestRunner'

If you have 2.3 installed, could you please try svn update and run
again?  I just fixed this particular one, but there could be more
lurking.

Thanks for catching it.

Cheers,

f



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