[Mailman-Users] reliable python 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 backport?

[Jeff Garvas]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:57:14PM +0900 or thereabouts, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> IIRC the lack of definition of Boolean constants is a problem specific
> to 2.3.2, and all you have to do is define True and False to 1 and 0
> respectively somewhere in the startup.  I'm not sure if the mm_cfg is
> early enough.

This is defined in almost every .py file, but this specific text is from 
Defaults.py: 

# Some convenient constants
try:
    True, False
except NameError:
    True = 1
    False = 0

Yes = yes = On = on = True
No = no = Off = off = False

 
> This isn't reliable information, OTOH only requires adding two lines
> and if it works, at least you can get started.

I had tried adding True = 1 in the last mentioned .py (I'm not a python
person at all) and it didn't seem to help one bit.

> FYI, I run Debian unstable and have never had a problem.  However, on
> my mail host, I have gotten rid of everything I don't need and make
> sure I keep copies of the most recent known working .debs.  Haven't
> had to use them yet in the 2.5 years since I started this policy.

I can't find a 2.3.4 or a 2.3.3 .deb so I just compiled Python from scratch
and sym linked /usr/bin/python to the 2.3.4 version in /usr/local/bin/python.

Why would this still be an issue if I'm running 2.3.4?

python -v confirms it:

jeff at agent:~$ python -v
# installing zipimport hook
import zipimport # builtin
# installed zipimport hook
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site.py
import site # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/os.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/os.py
import os # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/os.pyc
import posix # builtin
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py
import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/stat.py
import stat # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/UserDict.py
import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/UserDict.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.py
import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/types.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/types.py
import types # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/types.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/warnings.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/warnings.py
import warnings # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/warnings.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/linecache.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/linecache.py
import linecache # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/linecache.pyc
import encodings # directory /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.py
import encodings # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/codecs.py
import codecs # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc
import _codecs # builtin
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.py
import encodings.aliases # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.pyc
# /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.py
import encodings.ascii # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.pyc
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Aug  4 2004, 23:33:28)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
dlopen("/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so", 2);
import readline # dynamically loaded from /usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so
>>>

Help? :-)

-Jeff