Argparse dependency

[neithere]

Hi,

thanks for making argh, it is really great ! I am using it for sigal but I have an issue when packaging it for Archlinux. When calling sigal I get the following error:

#!python

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: argparse>=1.1

This is because you are adding argparse as a dependency in your setup.py even for python 2.7. So when installing argh with the system package I have a file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/argh-0.23.0-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt which contains argparse. And when calling my command with the entry_point system, it checks this dependency and fails.

Could you change your setup.py to add argparse only for python 2.6 ?

Note: This issue has been automatically migrated from Bitbucket Created by @saimn on 2013-03-10 23:20:21+00:00, last updated: 2013-03-11 13:34:37+00:00

[neithere]

Thanks for the report, I'll try to fix the problem.

By the way, does your sigal package for ArchLinux depend on python-argh (or python2-argh) from AUR?

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[neithere]

yes, it depends on python2-argh. The PKGBUILD is here (I will push it to AUR when this issue with argh/argparse is resolved) : https://gist.github.com/saimn/5130765

If I add python2-argparse to the dependencies, then it works fine, but adding this dependency should not be needed for python 2.7. I can reproduce the same error with the python2-watchdog AUR package which also depends on python2-argh,

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[neithere]

Thanks again for the informative bug report. I believe b900869 fixes it.

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[neithere]

Thanks for the quick fix and release :-)

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