[Biopython] Problem installing biopython with Python 3.3.1.rc1

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 8 17:55:47 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Nicolas Joannin
> <nicolas.joannin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, I guess that'll be the same whichever platform...
>> I guess I'll stick with 3.3.0 for the other machine then.
>> Thanks for the update!
>>
>> Nicolas
>
> More bad news - what ever was changes I think something
> similar was done in Python 2.7.4 as well, which also has
> new test failures not seen under Python 2.7.3. Sigh.
>
> Peter

Solved - this is bug in Python 2.7.4 and 3.3.1 (which had a
lot of gzip work done fixing other issues), but on the bright
side the fix is quite trivial to apply manually:
http://bugs.python.org/issue17666

Peter



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