'python setup.py test' failed

cy

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Nov 9, 2010, 4:05:57 AM11/9/10

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As told in protobuf-2.3.0/python/README.TXT, I run '$python setup.py
test'. However failed as bellow:

/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown
distribution option: 'namespace_packages'
warnings.warn(msg)
/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown
distribution option: 'test_suite'
warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'test'

What's the problem?

Kenton Varda

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Nov 9, 2010, 5:52:11 PM11/9/10

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I haven't seen this problem, but my wild guess is that for some reason your environment is using distutils instead of setuptools. They are similar, but distutils lacks some features, such as the "test" command. I'm not sure why this would happen, though.

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Chris

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Kenton Varda <kenton <at> google.com> writes:

>
>
> I haven't seen this problem, but my wild guess is that for some reason
your environment is using distutils instead of setuptools. They are
similar, but distutils lacks some features, such as the "test" command.
I'm not sure why this would happen, though.

> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:05 AM, cy <oramah <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As told in protobuf-2.3.0/python/README.TXT, I run '$python setup.py
> test'. However failed as bellow:
> /usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown
> distribution option: 'namespace_packages'
> warnings.warn(msg)
> /usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown
> distribution option: 'test_suite'
> warnings.warn(msg)
> usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
> or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
> or: setup.py --help-commands
> or: setup.py cmd --help
> error: invalid command 'test'
> What's the problem?
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Simply installing setuptools per the above solution did indeed work for me.
Thanks!

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