[Trac-tickets] [The Trac Project] #2137: Setuptools fail on windows with mod_python

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#2137: Setuptools fail on windows with mod_python
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 Reporter:  Gytis Raciukaitis <gytis at inre.lt>  |       Owner:  jonas
     Type:  defect                             |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:       
Component:  general                            |     Version:  devel
 Severity:  critical                           |   Keywords:                                     |  
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 The error reported looks like this:
 {{{
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend: Traceback (most recent call last):
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\Lib\\site-
 packages\\mod_python\\apache.py", line 299, in HandlerDispatch\n    result
 = object(req)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\Lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\web\\modpython_frontend.py", line 199, in handler\n    env
 = get_environment(mpr, project_opts)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\Lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\web\\main.py", line 338, in get_environment\n    return
 _open_environment(env_path, threaded)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\Lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\web\\main.py", line 51, in _open_environment\n
 env_cache[env_path] = open_environment(env_path)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\env.py", line 354, in open_environment\n    env =
 Environment(env_path)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\env.py", line 77, in __init__\n    from trac.loader import
 load_components
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\trac\\loader.py", line 20, in ?\n    import pkg_resources
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "c:\\python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\setuptools-0.6a2-py2.3.egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 2146, in ?\n
 working_set = WorkingSet()
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "c:\\python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\setuptools-0.6a2-py2.3.egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 343, in
 __init__\n    self.add_entry(entry)
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "c:\\python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\setuptools-0.6a2-py2.3.egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 358, in
 add_entry\n    for dist in find_distributions(entry, True):
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend:   File "c:\\python23\\lib\\site-
 packages\\setuptools-0.6a2-py2.3.egg\\pkg_resources.py", line 1372, in
 find_on_path\n    for entry in os.listdir(path_item):
 [Wed Sep 28 11:15:20 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.151] PythonHandler
 trac.web.modpython_frontend: WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename,
 directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: '\\\\\\\\*.*'
 }}}

 Looking deeper into it i found out that sys.path[0] is the problem,
 because it is initialized to "/". I fixed the problem locally by removing
 this element from sys.path in env.py.

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