From 87d2ccf768e2038f1e907235df115cb814a588c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:25:27 +0000 Subject: Fail somewhat more gracefully when using Python < 2.5. --- Doc/tools/sphinx-build.py | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinx-build.py b/Doc/tools/sphinx-build.py index 20516b6..8c9331e 100644 --- a/Doc/tools/sphinx-build.py +++ b/Doc/tools/sphinx-build.py @@ -10,5 +10,14 @@ import sys if __name__ == '__main__': + + if sys.version_info[:3] < (2, 5, 0): + print >>sys.stderr, """\ +Error: Sphinx needs to be executed with Python 2.5 or newer. +(If you run this from the Makefile, you can set the PYTHON variable +to the path of an alternative interpreter executable.) +""" + sys.exit(1) + from sphinx import main sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) -- cgit v0.12