Installation problems on Windows 7

[Sylvain Viollon]

Hello,

I have a customer trying to install fanstatic on Windows 7. He gets into
a problem with the package which:

Getting distribution for 'fanstatic==1.0a4'.
warning: no previously-included files found matching '.installed.cfg'
Got fanstatic 1.0a4.
Getting distribution for 'which==1.1.0'.
warning: no previously-included files found matching '*~'
warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'test'
error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: open('C:\\programs\\python\\python273\\which.exe', 'wb') {}

Did anyone already experienced this problem and knows how
to prevent it ?

Regards,

Sylvain,


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Apparently, fanstatic's compiler.py depends on an unmaintained library "which". I believe that with the introduction of shutil.which in Python 3.3 it should stop depending on "which" and maybe roll its own (as did Django and Twisted).

There were multiple StackOverflow answers on this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5226958/which-equivalent-function-in-python
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2629472/python-analog-of-unix-which
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/775351/os-path-exists-for-files-in-your-path

There should be code in compiler.py similar to this:

try:
    from shutil import which
except:
    def which(program):
        import os

        def is_exe(fpath):
            return os.path.isfile(fpath) and os.access(fpath, os.X_OK)

        fpath, fname = os.path.split(program)
        if fpath:
            if is_exe(program):
                return program
        else:
            for path in os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep):
                path = path.strip('"')
                exe_file = os.path.join(path, program)
                if is_exe(exe_file):
                    return exe_file

        return None

Cheers,
Ivan Bulanov