compiling Python 2.1.1

[Roman Suzi]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Continuing with my Python upgrade...

> 
>     Roman> How people compile Python 2.1.1 from src.rpm on not-so-ancient
>     Roman> RedHat 6.2 (without tricks)???
> 
> Checked into CVS is a slight modification of setup.py that may help you
> compile on a system with potentially multiple versions of libdb.  Attached
> is a context diff.  Feedback on whether or not this helps people would be
> appreciated.

That is what setup.py gives when trying it:

$ python setup.py --help
  File "setup.py", line 57
    extlist = [ext for ext in extlist if ext.name == modname]
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

List comprehensions are cool, but are they really needed in 
files like setup.py ???
 

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
-- 
 - Petrozavodsk - Karelia - Russia - mailto:rnd at onego.ru -