[Python-modules-team] Bug#565458: Bug#565458: [python-yaml] doesn't seem to work with python 2.6

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Giovanni,

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 00:19, Giovanni Mascellani
<mascellani at poisson.phc.unipi.it> wrote:
> Package: python-yaml
> Version: 3.09-2+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> Python yaml doesn't seem to work with python 2.6:
>
> $ python2.5
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 19 2009, 19:46:21)
> [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import yaml
>>>>
>
> But:
>
> $ python2.6
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 28 2009, 22:19:17)
> [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import yaml
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named yaml
>>>>

That's supposed to happen: python2.6 is still not one of the supported
versions (!!!!!), so modules are not installed for that version and so
you can't import them.

> Ubuntu package[1] seems to be the same version ad Debian, but is
> available also for python 2.6.
>
>  [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/python-yaml

of course because they have py2.6 as default since 9.04, while we are
still waiting......

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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