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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/errors.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/errors.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/errors.py b/Lib/distutils/errors.py index f9d5c8de5a..61cdb72c2a 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/errors.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/errors.py @@ -46,15 +46,18 @@ if type (RuntimeError) is types.ClassType: class DistutilsFileError (DistutilsError): pass - # DistutilsOptionError is raised anytime an attempt is made to access - # (get or set) an option that does not exist for a particular command - # (or for the distribution itself). + # DistutilsOptionError is raised for syntactic/semantic errors in + # command options, such as use of mutually conflicting options, or + # inconsistent options, badly-spelled values, etc. No distinction is + # made between option values originating in the setup script, the + # command line, config files, or what-have-you. class DistutilsOptionError (DistutilsError): pass - # DistutilsValueError is raised anytime an option value (presumably - # provided by setup.py) is invalid. - class DistutilsValueError (DistutilsError): + # DistutilsSetupError is raised for errors that can be definitely + # blamed on the setup script, such as invalid keyword arguments to + # 'setup()'. + class DistutilsSetupError (DistutilsError): pass # DistutilsPlatformError is raised when we find that we don't @@ -82,7 +85,6 @@ else: DistutilsArgError = 'DistutilsArgError' DistutilsFileError = 'DistutilsFileError' DistutilsOptionError = 'DistutilsOptionError' - DistutilsValueError = 'DistutilsValueError' DistutilsPlatformError = 'DistutilsPlatformError' DistutilsExecError = 'DistutilsExecError' DistutilsInternalError = 'DistutilsInternalError' |