[Twisted-Python] which dia error from lore

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Mon Mar 14 10:06:57 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:55 +0000, Jp Calderone wrote:

> > -        diaHack = not not os.popen('which dia').read()
> > +        diaHack = not not os.popen('which dia 2>/dev/null').read()
> >      except:
> >          # That's a no, then.
> >          diaHack = 0
> 
>   When does this happen, exactly?  I don't have dia installed, either, and I'm not seeing any mktap output related to it.

We shouldn't be using "which dia" anyway, it's ugly and broken. Don't we
have a Python implementation of which() somewhere?





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