Problems with python (was: /bin/date and coreutils)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-05-10 23:56:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I've seen many problems after Python upgrades under Debian (e.g.
> things that no longer work, probably because incompatibilities
> between versions)...

Well, not only on Debian. With MacPorts too: the latest python upgrade
(2.4.3_1 -> 2.4.4_0) breaks Mercurial:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/hg", line 10, in ?
    from mercurial import commands
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/commands.py", line 2559, in ?
    globalopts = [
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/demandload.py", line 61, in __getattribute__
    module = object.__getattribute__(self, 'module')()
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/demandload.py", line 54, in module
    return object.__getattribute__(self, 'importer').module()
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/demandload.py", line 30, in module
    self.fromlist)
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mercurial/util.py", line 20, in ?
    _encoding = os.environ.get("HGENCODING") or locale.getpreferredencoding() \
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 399, in getpreferredencoding
    import _locale
ImportError: No module named _locale

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