setup.py: keep Python 2.3 compatibility stable
authorMartin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net>
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:11:37 +0100
branchstable
changeset 10124 08384d8777a4
parent 10122 0ddbc0299742
child 10126 78b8acae2088
child 10132 ebf69364e80f
setup.py: keep Python 2.3 compatibility Though we only support Python 2.4 or greater, we should keep setup.py compatible with earlier versions on the syntactic level. Otherwise people will simply get a SyntaxError when trying to install Mercurial with an old version of Python. With this change, the setup.py file can be imported with Python 2.3 and we then issue a friendly error message when we detect that Python is too old.
setup.py
--- a/setup.py	Wed Dec 23 18:40:21 2009 +0100
+++ b/setup.py	Wed Dec 23 19:11:37 2009 +0100
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@
     if version.endswith('+'):
         version += time.strftime('%Y%m%d')
 elif os.path.exists('.hg_archival.txt'):
-    kw = dict([t.strip() for t in l.split(':', 1)]
-              for l in open('.hg_archival.txt'))
+    kw = dict([[t.strip() for t in l.split(':', 1)]
+               for l in open('.hg_archival.txt')])
     if 'tag' in kw:
         version =  kw['tag']
     elif 'latesttag' in kw: