[Distutils] "test_suite must be a list" ??

[zooko]

Okay, folks, I confirmed that this was indeed because a package named  
"elisa" was installed on the user's system, and I added this work- 
around to my package's setup.py:

http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp/browser/setup.py?rev=567#L146

146	try:
147	    _setup(test_suite="pycryptopp.test")
148	except BaseException, le:
149	    # to work around a bug in Elisa
150	    if "test_suite must be a list" in str(le):
151	        _setup(test_suite=["pycryptopp.test"])


This works on both my system (with setuptools 0.7 dev) and my user's  
system (with setuptools 0.6c8 and elisa).


I will try to contact the authors of elisa.


Regards,

Zooko
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