[New-bugs-announce] [issue2385] run_setup can fail if the setup script uses __file__

[Tarek Ziadé]

New submission from Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:

When calling run_setup, the execfile does not set the __file__ global
variable, that is often used in setup.py modules (for instance to load a
text file from the package to be used in the long_description)

This patch adds this global variable so it does not fail. 

No test provided (distutils would need a test_core.py). 

I could work on some tests, but the previous test_* files I have added
are not in yet, so i'd rather wait for that before proposing new tests
modules.

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components: Distutils
files: distutils.core.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 63906
nosy: tarek
severity: normal
status: open
title: run_setup can fail if the setup script uses __file__
type: crash
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9724/distutils.core.patch

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