Package: python-pkg-resources
Version: 5.5.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I installed the slimit package and, lacking a man page, ran
slimit --help
Instead of help I got
<quote>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/slimit", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1189, in
<module>
class MarkerEvaluation(object):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1193, in
MarkerEvaluation
'python_full_version': platform.python_version,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'python_version'
</quote>
which wasn't much use. The problem is that last stack frame, in
pkg_resources.py, where
<quote>
import platform
...
class MarkerEvaluation(object):
values = {
'os_name': lambda: os.name,
'sys_platform': lambda: sys.platform,
'python_full_version': platform.python_version,
'python_version': lambda: platform.python_version()[:3],
...
</quote>
presumes that the module platform has python_version as an attribute
(that is, no less, callable returning a sequence). A quick python
session:
<quote>
Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 9 2014, 23:55:56)
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.python_version
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'python_version'
>>> platform.version
<function version at 0xb72aa56c>
>>> platform.version()
'#1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09)'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.version
'2.7.8 (default, Sep 9 2014, 23:55:56) \n[GCC 4.9.1]'
</quote>
reveals that this is an unrealistic expectation.
Continuing,
<quote>
>>> import pkg_resources
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "pkg_resources.py", line 1189, in <module>
class MarkerEvaluation(object):
File "pkg_resources.py", line 1193, in MarkerEvaluation
'python_full_version': platform.python_version,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'python_version'
</quote>
I verify that the problem resides entirely within pkg_resources; it
has nothing to do with how slimit is using it.
Commenting out the python_full_version and python_version entries in
values (quoted above), I discover python_implementation is also a
mythical attribute of platform. Commenting *that* out, I find I am
finally able to import pkg_resources; and slimit --help actually runs,
albeit producing only minimal help. I don't know what else may be
broken by it, but here's the patch I'm left using:
<patch>
diff -bu /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py.orig
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py
--- /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py.orig 2014-08-10
19:36:30.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py 2014-09-17
15:00:55.183904273 +0200
@@ -1190,11 +1190,11 @@
values = {
'os_name': lambda: os.name,
'sys_platform': lambda: sys.platform,
- 'python_full_version': platform.python_version,
- 'python_version': lambda: platform.python_version()[:3],
+ #'python_full_version': platform.python_version,
+ #'python_version': lambda: platform.python_version()[:3],
'platform_version': platform.version,
'platform_machine': platform.machine,
- 'python_implementation': platform.python_implementation,
+ #'python_implementation': platform.python_implementation,
}
@classmethod
Diff finished. Wed Sep 17 15:07:54 2014
</patch>
This makes pkg_resources.py unusable (can't import it) and makes at
least one other package unusable (slimit, because it expects to be
able to import pkg_resources).
-- System Information:
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APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
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Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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pn python:any <none>
python-pkg-resources recommends no packages.
Versions of packages python-pkg-resources suggests:
pn python-distribute <none>
pn python-distribute-doc <none>
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