File paths printed in stack trace are where Python was built???

[Kevin Kelley]

Actually, if you to get an error from a module built with zipimport it
points to where that module was built as well.

Kevin

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> We distribute Python internally by building it in one place, and then
> distributing images of the entire install area to wherever it's
> needed.  I just noticed something strange; when I got an error which
> caused a stack trace, the file paths in the printed stack trace refer
> to the directory where Python was built.
>
> Why is this?  All other paths I can think of in Python are generated
> relative to where the binary is running, not where it was built.  Is
> there a way to make the stacktraces point to where Python is running
> from, instead of where it was built?
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "tProcess.py", line 27, in test_t1
>   server = subprocess.Popen(argv)
>  File "/emc/chacoj2/src/clean/smarts/thirdparty/python/2.5.1/
> linux_rhAS40-x86-32/install/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 593, in
> __init__
>   errread, errwrite)
>  File "/emc/chacoj2/src/clean/smarts/thirdparty/python/2.5.1/
> linux_rhAS40-x86-32/install/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1079,
> in _execute_child
>   raise child_exception
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'rfind'
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