> On 19 May 2020, at 21:36, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > > On 19/05/2020 10:49, Łukasz Langa wrote: >> On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently >> serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the >> release of Python 3.9.0b1. Get it here: >> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b1/ >> <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b1/> >> This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 >> Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b1, is the first of >> four planned beta release previews. >> Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the >> opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects >> to support the new feature release. >> Call to action > ......... > > I built python3.9.0b1 from source using the standard configure make dance eg > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/LOCAL/3.9b1 > make && make install > > that appeared to work fine and I seem to get a working python. However, I > seem to have an issue with the distutils package > > >> robin@minikat:~/devel/reportlab >> $ $HOME/LOCAL/3.9b1/bin/python3.9 >> Python 3.9.0b1 (default, May 19 2020, 12:50:30) [GCC 10.1.0] on linux >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> import distutils >> /home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py:15: UserWarning: >> The virtualenv distutils package at %s appears to be in the same location as >> the system distutils? >> warnings.warn("The virtualenv distutils package at %s appears to be in the >> same location as the system distutils?") >>>>> distutils.__path__ >> ['/home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils'] >>>>> distutils.__file__ >> '/home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py' > > is this a bug or have I built python 3.9.0b1 wrongly?
I think that is correct __file__ value. What are you expecting to see? Barry > -- > Robin Becker > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
