From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:19:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: When emitting a command-line error message, *say* it's an error.
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~626
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d46b9ce9760f8cd6c29b05c50b9e41ffe781f4c;p=python

When emitting a command-line error message, *say* it's an error.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 13bf9c7fcb..fd5ba907fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def setup (**attrs):
         ok = dist.parse_command_line (sys.argv[1:])
     except DistutilsArgError, msg:
         sys.stderr.write (usage + "\n")
-        raise SystemExit, msg
+        raise SystemExit, "error: %s" % msg
 
     # And finally, run all the commands found on the command line.
     if ok: