distutils and Debian
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
Thu Nov 11 10:24:11 EST 2004
Colin J. Williams wrote:
> I have installed the Python*-dev packages, but my present problem
> centres on installing distutils.
Why are you trying to install distutils over the one provided by
python-dev? It's probably not a good idea.
> With >python setup.py install, I get:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 30, in ?
> packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
> File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line
> 102, in setup
> _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
> File "/root/downloads/python/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py", line
> 130, in __init__
> setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name))
> AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute
> 'get___doc__'
>
> I would welcome any suggestion as to how I can work around this.
I don't have a clue. It seems to be internal to the Distutils-1.0.2
source distribution and not using the distutils from python-dev. I
suggest asking on the distutils mailing list.
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Robert Kern
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