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[Edvard Majakari]

"jtan325" <mr.jasontan at gmail.com> writes:


> customize_compiler
>     cc_cmd = cc + ' ' + opt
> TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

[...]

> upon closer inspection of Python's distutils sysconfig.py, is the error
> being caused by the ' ' in "cc_cmd = cc + ' ' + opt"? Any ideas on this
> new error? Are there packages/settings I need to take care of before i
> can use Python's distutils to install stuff?

The error message indicates that one of the operands on the right side is
None. ' ' is clearly a string constant (string with one whitespace), so the
problem must be either cc or opt - one of them is None.

Toying a little I realized Python emits different warnings for pairs
cc, opt = None, 'cat' and
cc, opt = 'cat', None:

>>> cc, opt = None, 'cat'
>>> cc_cmd = cc + ' ' + opt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

# note the different TypeError message below

>>> cc, opt = 'cat', None
>>> cc_cmd = cc + ' ' + opt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

So, for some reason, variable opt is None.

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