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| author | Ryan Snyder <ryan@vector35.com> | 2018-07-06 21:15:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Ryan Snyder <ryan@vector35.com> | 2018-07-06 21:15:02 -0400 |
| commit | 4f1a7824357ab58d868dbd675af9b152fc3694e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 797da072919ae25e8d26a90663c0760e9ef29707 /python/downloadprovider.py | |
| parent | bbc3116e82e8d92084a0e667e6f5222fc1455999 (diff) | |
Python: More useful error when loading too-old Python on Windows
Diffstat (limited to 'python/downloadprovider.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | python/downloadprovider.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/python/downloadprovider.py b/python/downloadprovider.py index c0cecbe5..d34ca358 100644 --- a/python/downloadprovider.py +++ b/python/downloadprovider.py @@ -258,9 +258,12 @@ else: PythonDownloadProvider().register() except ImportError: - log.log_error("On this version of Python, the pip requests[security] package is required for network connectivity!") - log.log_error("On an Ubuntu 14.04 install, the following three commands are sufficient to enable networking for the current user:") - log.log_error(" sudo apt install python-pip") - log.log_error(" python -m pip install pip --upgrade --user") - log.log_error(" python -m pip install requests[security] --upgrade --user") + if sys.platform == "win32": + log.log_error("Provided Python version is too old! Only Python 2.7.10 and above are known to work on Windows!") + else: + log.log_error("On Python versions below 2.7.9, the pip requests[security] package is required for network connectivity!") + log.log_error("On an Ubuntu 14.04 install, the following three commands are sufficient to enable networking for the current user:") + log.log_error(" sudo apt install python-pip") + log.log_error(" python -m pip install pip --upgrade --user") + log.log_error(" python -m pip install requests[security] --upgrade --user") |