I'm not sure whose fault this is, the author of python-magic or easy_install (I'm guessing easy_install) but in any case
easy_install python-magic (as root) fails with Searching for python-magic Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/python-magic/ Reading http://hupp.org/adam/hg/python-magic No local packages or download links found for python-magic Best match: None Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1712, in main File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 434, in easy_install File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/package_index.py", line 475, in fetch_distribution AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone' As far as I can see the problem is that no version of python-magic has been supplied for python 2.6 which is the version I'm using, only 2.4 and 2.5. Nevertheless easy_install should I think fail with a more user friendly message, and definitely not with a long traceback. It should I think just inform the user that no version has been found, good bye. Or something like that. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
