unable to install MySQLdb (version 0.3.5 ) using ActivePython (build 203) on Win 98

[Gerhard Häring]

robin and jim wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just downloaded the 2001-03-28 build of MySQLdb (version 0.3.5 ) from
> http://home.t-online.de/home/err666/ (thanks Gerhard!) and issued the
> command:
> 
> python setup.py install
> 
> using ActivePython (build 203) on a Windows 98 (2nd edition) computer.
> 
> Below is the result.  Any suggestions about what I'm doing wrong.  Thanks.
> 
> [... snipped, actual exception follows:]
> 
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\core.py", line 138, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 829, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 849, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 483, in run
>     self.run_command(cmd_name)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 328, in run_command
>     self.distribution.run_command(command)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 849, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", line 93, in run
>     self.byte_compile(outfiles)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", line 130, in
> byte_com
> pile
>     verbose=self.verbose, dry_run=self.dry_run)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\distutils\util.py", line 423, in byte_compile
>     compile(file, cfile, dfile)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\py_compile.py", line 60, in compile
>     codeobject = __builtin__.compile(codestring, dfile or file, 'exec')
> TypeError: compile, argument 1: expected string without null bytes, string
> found

I am sorry, but I don't know what's happening here. I just confirmed
that it really works under my configuration (ActivePython build 202,
Windows 2000 SP 1 en). Maybe downloading the file again will help. Maybe
reverting to build 202 will, though if it build 203 is still Python 2.0,
it shouldn't matter.

Gerhard
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