python2.4 compat issue: must be type, not classobj

[shimizukawa]

When the documentation is built with CentOS 5.3 (having python2.4), the following error is given:

#!python

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Sphinx-1.0dev_20090505-py2.4.egg/sphinx/cmdline.py", line 171, in main
    warningiserror, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Sphinx-1.0dev_20090505-py2.4.egg/sphinx/application.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.setup_extension(extension)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Sphinx-1.0dev_20090505-py2.4.egg/sphinx/application.py", line 169, in setup_extension
    err)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Sphinx-1.0dev_20090505-py2.4.egg/sphinx/errors.py", line 31, in __init__
    super(ExtensionError, self).__init__(message)
TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/155
• Originally reported by: Anonymous
• Originally created at: 2009-05-05T13:03:00.446

[shimizukawa]

From Anonymous on 2009-05-05 12:16:59+00:00

Actually, the reason for the error //was not python2.4// but non-existing extension module:

If the there is non-existing module defined in extensions (in the conf.py), the error shown above is shown. Fortunatelly the //ExtensionError// gave a hint were to look from.

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2009-05-10 19:14:55+00:00

Fixed in <>, thanks!