commit 796b2ea5d4bb264a3fc291b4cf507e4953a98c69
author Christoph Zwerschke <cito@online.de> Sun Jun 05 13:02:02 2011 +0200
committer Christoph Zwerschke <cito@online.de> Sun Jun 05 13:02:02 2011 +0200
tree 563e3b7127c178f94a731196a45586e245885cec
parent 4964e7780911d32119ddfbef26c2ba20e5bc80d5

Workaround for Issue7511 did not run under Python 3.

setup.py

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 48d191c..0e092a0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
             build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
         except ext_errors:
             raise BuildFailed()
-        except ValueError, err:
-            # may happen on Win 64 bit, see Python issue7511
-            if "'path'" in str(err):
+        except ValueError:
+            # this can happen on Windows 64 bit, see Python issue 7511
+            if "'path'" in str(sys.exc_info()[1]): # works with Python 2 and 3
                 raise BuildFailed()
             raise