[OE-core] [PATCH] selftest/buildoptions: pexpect not a builtin module

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Fri Sep 18 11:37:50 UTC 2015


On Friday 18 September 2015 12:05:35 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 17 September 2015 at 21:38, Benjamin Esquivel <
> 
> benjamin.esquivel at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > put the import of pexpect around a try statement so it can tell you
> > why it failed to import when in a system that has the module unreachable
> 
> As the failing import is throwing an exception, can't the calling code
> display the exception correctly?

If we're going to trap this I think we should be displaying something like 
"Please install pexpect (python-pexpect)".

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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