[issue5810] test_distutils fails - sysconfig._config_vars is None

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:

Sorry, but the commit r69598 (due to Issue4524) has a problem. On
Windows and Linux (although not on MacOSX), test_distutils fails:

test_distutils
test test_distutils failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\tests\test_build_scripts.py", line 93,
in test_version_int
    old = sysconfig._config_vars.get('VERSION')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'


Using the documented API (`sysconfig.get_config_vars()`) instead of an
uninitialized private variable (`sysconfig._config_vars.get('VERSION')`)
may fix it.


The following session is from my a Windows machine:

>>> from distutils import sysconfig
>>> print sysconfig._config_vars
None
>>> s = sysconfig.get_config_vars()
>>> s
{'EXE': '.exe', ...}
>>> sysconfig._config_vars
{'EXE': '.exe', ...}
>>>

We face this failure while testing the ActivePython builds based on
Python 2.6.2.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 86266
nosy: srid, tarek, trentm
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_distutils fails - sysconfig._config_vars is None
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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