pynche does not start

[misa]

BPO	780996
Nosy	@warsaw

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closed_at = <Date 2003-09-03.03:16:22.000>
created_at = <Date 2003-07-31.17:47:22.000>
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title = 'pynche does not start'
updated_at = <Date 2003-09-03.03:16:22.000>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/misa'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue780996'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[misa]

On a Red Hat 9 box with python 2.3 compiled:

-bash-2.05b# python
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynche/pynche 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynche/pynche", line
7, in ?
    Main.main()
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynche/Main.py", line
220, in main
    dbfile=dbfile)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynche/Main.py", line
130, in build
    dbfile = s.optiondb()['DBFILE']
KeyError: 'DBFILE'

By looking at the constructor for Switchboard, if
~/.pynche is missing, then self.__optiondb is the empty
hash.

Copying a .pynche file from an older python makes
pynche happy again.

[warsaw]

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Fixed in Main.py 2.23 (and backported)