[Python-Dev] CVS tree doesn't build currently

[Tim Peters]

[Jack Jansen]
> I can't build from the CVS tree right now (confirmed on Irix and OSX):
> setup.py crashes. Here's the stacktrace:
>
> CC='cc' LDSHARED='ld  -shared -all' ./python -E ./setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./setup.py", line 708, in ?
>     main()
>   File "./setup.py", line 702, in main
>     scripts = ['Tools/scripts/pydoc']
>   File "/ufs/jack/src/python/Lib/distutils/core.py", line 101, in setup
>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>   File"/ufs/jack/src/python/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 129, in __init__
>     setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
> AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute
> 'get___doc__'

Unless I miss my bet, Neil fixed this now, and it was due to that
dir(instance) now returns the attributes of instance.__class__ in addition
to the keys in instance.__dict__.  Most relevant here, that means
dir(instance) now contains '__doc__' (really an attribute of its class) but
didn't before (and dist starting synthesizing a non-existent "get"+"__doc__"
method name as a consequence).