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Originally reported by: jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco)
Adding __future__.unicode_literals
causes setup.py scripts to fail. In the mailman project, here is an example error when running python2 setup.py build:
running build
running build_py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 112, in <module>
test_suite = 'nose2.collector.collector',
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 127, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\build_py.py", line 42, in run
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build_py.py", line 372, in build_packages
self.build_module(module, module_file, package)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\build_py.py", line 60, in build_module
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build_py.py", line 333, in build_module
"'package' must be a string (dot-separated), list, or tuple")
TypeError: 'package' must be a string (dot-separated), list, or tuple
A different error occurs when using 'develop':
running develop
error: 'egg_base' must be a directory name (got `src`)
Setuptools could make this error message nicer.