[Yum] Updating Python

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:04:19PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > you're added to it - and now you can add other people to the editgroup
> > for yum files.
> 
> Excellent. Will try not to cause too much trouble.
> 
> Back to the original thing.... would it be useful to do something like the
> following? I know the compare-exception-value-string is kludgy/bad, but if
> it were to happen to break, that wouldn't be too bad, since it would just
> fail to match and then print out the exception value....
> 
> 
> --- /usr/bin/yum	2005-07-08 10:18:43.000000000 -0400
> +++ yum	2005-07-12 15:17:58.000000000 -0400
> @@ -3,10 +3,17 @@
>  try:
>     import yum
>  except ImportError:
> -   print >> sys.stderr, "The yum libraries do not seem to be available \
> -on your system for this version of python ", sys.version
> -   print >> sys.stderr, "Please make sure the package you used to install \
> -yum was built for your install of python."
> +   if str(sys.exc_value) == 'No module named yum':
> +      print >> sys.stderr, "The yum libraries do not seem to be available \
> +on your system for this version of Python ", sys.version
> +      print >> sys.stderr, "Please make sure the package you used to install \
> +yum was built for your install of Python."
> +   else:
> +      print >> sys.stderr, "There was an error importing one of the Python \
> +modules required to run yum:"
> +      print >> sys.stderr, "  " + str(sys.exc_value)
> +      print >> sys.stderr, "Please install a package which provides this \
> +module, and try again."
>     sys.exit(1)
>  
>  sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/share/yum-cli')

Pete already sent in one patch to make this much more clear - it is
similar to the one you sent in. I've not merged it yet but the short
answer is yes, it's probably worth putting in.

-sv