[TIP] tox running as python3 instead of env

[holger krekel]

Hi Aaron,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 21:51 +0000, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm struggling to debug an issue.
> 
> I have a project with a tox.ini of http://pastebin.com/djvdMnb2
> (it's duplicity, if you need more context
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/duplicity/0.7-series/files )
> 
> When I try to run "tox" in the folder, I get an error:
> 
> ==
> $ tox
> GLOB sdist-make: /home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/setup.py
> ERROR: invocation failed (exit code 1), logfile:
> /home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/.tox/log/tox-0.log
> ERROR: actionid: tox
> msg: packaging
> cmdargs: ['/usr/bin/python3m',
> local('/home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/setup.py'), 'sdist',
> '--formats=zip', '--dist-dir',
> local('/home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/.tox/dist')]
> env: None
> 
> Sorry, duplicity requires version 2.6 or 2.7 of python.

The "sdist-make" step is run with the tox-invoking environment's Python
interpreter so in your case python3 i guess.  There is currently no way
to configure this differently.  You need to make sure  you are running
tox installed with a python2.7.

holger


> ERROR: FAIL could not package project - v =
> InvocationError('/usr/bin/python3m
> /home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/setup.py sdist --formats=zip
> --dist-dir /home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/.tox/dist (see
> /home/aaron/Programming/duplicity/test4/.tox/log/tox-0.log)', 1)
> 
> ==
> 
> The python version check is part of duplicity, but it shouldn't be
> running python3 - the envs set up in the tox.ini file should be using
> python version 2.6 or 2.7. It also fails if I specifically type in "tox
> -e 2.6", still saying "env: None" in the error output (see above).
> 
> $ tox --version
> 2.3.1 imported from /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tox/__init__.py
> 
> $ python --version
> Python 2.7.10
> 
> The fact that it has Python 3 in the InvocationError suggests to me that
> the environments aren't being set up properly, but I can't figure out
> why. Things were working earlier, before I uninstalled and reinstalled
> tox to upgrade it to the latest version -- but now taking the version
> back down to what I was on (1.7.2) doesn't make any difference. Looking
> back at earlier output, when I used to type tox --version, it used to say
> $ tox --version
> 1.7.2 imported from
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tox-1.7.2-py2.7.egg/tox/__init__.pyc
> 
> Whereas now, even when I downgrade the version, it says that it was
> imported from the python3.4 folder. Not sure if that is relevant, though.
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
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