On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:58:19 AM UTC-8, E. Madison Bray wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:26 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:11:17 AM UTC-8, John H Palmieri > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:06:45 AM UTC-8, John H Palmieri > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 8:57:24 AM UTC-8, John H Palmieri > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 3:59:41 AM UTC-8, E. Madison Bray > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:30 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>>> > > >>>>> > Here is the situation: I've been playing around with new versions > of Sphinx. If I've installed a new version and then go back to an old > version, the directory local/lib/python2.7/site-libraries/sphinx/ is not > removed and then recreated, but instead the changed files are reinstalled, > leaving remnants of the previous version there. Is this how things are > supposed to work? > >>>>> > >>>>> That is definitely not how anything is supposed to work, nor is it > how > >>>>> it does work normally. You'd have to describe exactly what you did > >>>>> though. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I checked out #26451 (which updates Sphinx) and ran "make". Played > around with it for a while, then checked out "develop" and ran "make". > Frequently, but maybe not every time, math.py remains and I get an import > error when Sage uses Sphinx to build the documentation. > >>> > >>> > >>> It's also possible that I ran "./sage -f sphinx", too, in case that > makes a difference. > >>> > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> FWIW pip keeps its own manifest of what files it installed, > >>>>> so when you remove/upgrade a package it will normally remove all > those > >>>>> files first. > >> > >> > >> I just now checked out the git branch for #26451, ran "make build", > then checked out develop, and ran "make". When it reached the docbuilding > part of things, I got > >> > >> [dochtml] from math import sqrt > >> [dochtml] ImportError: cannot import name sqrt > >> > >> because math.py remains in > local/lib/python2.7/site-libraries/sphinx/util/ > >> > >> I did it again and the same thing happened (check out 26451, make > build, check out develop, make). > > > > > > The installation log for Sphinx says > > > >> Old-style or corrupt stamp file > '/Users/palmieri/Desktop/Sage_stuff/git/sage/local/var/lib/sage/installed/sphinx-1.7.6.p0' > > > >> No legacy uninstaller found for 'sphinx'; nothing to do > > > > > > (A message like this appears for both the old and new versions of > Sphinx.) Could this be related? The json file seems to be corrupted: it > looks to me like the file names should be quoted. Of course, all of the > stamp files in the "installed" directory have this format, so my guess is > that they are all corrupted, as far as json (or Python's json module) is > concerned. > > Indeed that is the problem. It appears that those files are corrupt > on OSX. I can reproduce this as well. I wonder why no one's > mentioned it before now: That could have been a real source of > problems (including this one)! > > Apparently it comes down to a GNU sed vs. BSD sed difference. I think > I'll just replace this part of the code with a snippet of Python. > > I sure do hate computers. >
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