[Fab-user] fabric on python2.4

[Erwin Elling]

Hi all,
The Fabric website states "Python 2.5 (2.4 might work but is not  
tested)." as one of the system requirements.
[http://www.nongnu.org/fab/index.html]

Since we wanted to try Fabric for the deployment of our projects,  
we've been playing around with it and ran into some problems on  
python2.4.
When going through the tutorial, the "hello_remote" command does not  
seem to work on python2.4 (transcript of my terminal below). After  
switching to python2.5 we haven't run into any problems yet.

Don't know whether this is indeed a problem of fabric on python2.4,  
but it seems like it is. Hopefully this information is useful to some  
of you.
Cheers,
Erwin


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Running hello_remote...
Logging into the following hosts as [...]:
    [...]
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
bin/fab", line 32, in ?
    fabric.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
lib/python2.4/site-packages/fabric.py", line 1021, in main
    _execute_commands(commands)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
lib/python2.4/site-packages/fabric.py", line 1011, in _execute_commands
    COMMANDS[cmd](**(args or {}))
  File "fabfile.py", line 13, in hello_remote
    run("echo hello from $(fab_host) to $(fab_user).")
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
lib/python2.4/site-packages/fabric.py", line 92, in wrapper
    _connect()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
lib/python2.4/site-packages/fabric.py", line 874, in _connect
    host, _, port = host.partition(':')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'partition'