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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>1999-12-16 01:19:05 (GMT)
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>1999-12-16 01:19:05 (GMT)
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When emitting a command-line error message, *say* it's an error.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/core.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 13bf9c7..fd5ba90 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def setup (**attrs):
ok = dist.parse_command_line (sys.argv[1:])
except DistutilsArgError, msg:
sys.stderr.write (usage + "\n")
- raise SystemExit, msg
+ raise SystemExit, "error: %s" % msg
# And finally, run all the commands found on the command line.
if ok: