commit 91e77536e8285bd2276a40bb891efc9001b9f8a6
author Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Fri Nov 08 16:18:24 2002 +0000
committer Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Fri Nov 08 16:18:24 2002 +0000
tree 01b7fc0e9acaba00000511db48d52d7dd78ca66d
parent 706867c20c507c60cf26a20b25c10c3e4b7c3aa4

[Bug #233259] Ugly traceback for DistutilsPlatformError
  Fixed by catching all exceptions that are subclasses of DistutilsError,
  so only the error message will be printed.  You can still get the
  whole traceback by enabling the Distutils debugging mode.

Lib/distutils/core.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 001e74b..5196145 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -145,9 +145,7 @@
             else:
                 raise SystemExit, error
 
-        except (DistutilsExecError,
-                DistutilsFileError,
-                DistutilsOptionError,
+        except (DistutilsError,
                 CCompilerError), msg:
             if DEBUG:
                 raise