[Python-Dev] Broken Test -- test_distutils

[Raymond Hettinger]

In the past couple of days, test_distutils started failing.  
It looks like a pure python error and may have been 
introduced by guilherme.polo's checkins:


 File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\tests\test_sdist.py", line 119, in test_make_distr
ibution
    spawn('tar --help')
  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 37, in spawn
    _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 70, in _spawn_nt
    cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 61, in _nt_quote_args
    args[i] = '"%s"' % args[i]
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

1 test failed:
    test_distutils



Raymond