From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:49:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Try to deal with pre-1.5.2 IOError exception objects.
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~346
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a0620c3a5b3c906c941938158e030eb8b1c231b;p=python

Try to deal with pre-1.5.2 IOError exception objects.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index ddd39a2c79..a92bff9573 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ def setup (**attrs):
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             raise SystemExit, "interrupted"
         except IOError, exc:
-            # is this 1.5.2-specific? 1.5-specific?
-            raise SystemExit, "error: %s: %s" % (exc.filename, exc.strerror)
+            # arg, try to work with Python pre-1.5.2
+            if hasattr (exc, 'filename') and hasattr (exc, 'strerror'):
+                raise SystemExit, \
+                      "error: %s: %s" % (exc.filename, exc.strerror)
+            else:
+                raise SystemExit, str (exc)
 
 # setup ()