[Zope-Coders] Re: [ZC] 162/ 3 Comment "Python errors during installation"

[Guido van Rossum]

Walt, do you happen to have Python 2.2 installed?

Could it be that somehow the Python 2.2 compileall.py is used?

In 2.2, compileall.py was fixed so that it fails on syntax errors --
this is on purpose, to prevent installing bad code.  We removed the
intentional syntax errors from the test suite.  But if you were to use
the 2.2 compileall.py with a 2.1 distribution, you'd be in trouble.

Otherwise I can't explain what happened.  No 2.1 distribution (or
2.1.1, or 2.1.2) contains the 2.2 changes to compileall.py.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)