[R-sig-Fedora] Trying to use current R2spec on RHEL.

Michael Hannon jm_hannon at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 13 20:19:04 CET 2012


> From: Allen S. Rout <asr at ufl.edu>
>
>On 03/12/2012 07:28 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>  [...]
>
>So I've updated everything Python from EPEL on my RHEL 5 box.   Versions
>included below.
>
>
>#  R2spec -p RColorBrewer
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/R2spec", line 29, in ?
>    R2spec().main(ARG)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/r2spec/r2spec_obj.py", line 235, in
>  main
>    pack.search_package_in_repo()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/r2spec/rpackage.py", line 237, in
>  search_package_in_repo
>    self.source = '{name}_{version}.tar.gz'.format(name=self.name,
>AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'format'
>
>
>This feels to me like another library drift issue.  Aaand stackoverflow says
>yeah, that's it.
>
>Pierre-Yves, would you entertain a patch to fix this?

I haven't been following this thread, but I'm pretty sure that the Python
string method "format" did not appear until Python 2.6.  It appears that
you're using Python 2.4.

-- Mike



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