[PyQt] sip --configuration error

[Phil Thompson]

On 03/06/2014 11:45 am, Sebastian Elsner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was just trying out the --configure flag on sip and get a strange 
> error:
> 
> R:\libraries\sip-4.16>python configure.py --configuration sip.config
> This is SIP 4.16 for Python 2.6.6 on win32.
> Reading configuration from R:\libraries\sip-4.16\sip.config...
> An internal error occured.  Please report all the output from the 
> program,
> including the following traceback, to support at riverbankcomputing.com.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "configure.py", line 870, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv)
>   File "configure.py", line 794, in main
>     update_from_configuration_file(opts.config_file)
>   File "configure.py", line 536, in update_from_configuration_file
>     parts = l.split('=', maxsplit=1)
> TypeError: split() takes no keyword arguments
> 
> the line it fails on is this (first line):
> 
> py_major = 2
> 
> 
> according to the docs split does take that keyword argument... If
> removed that bit of code works.

It's not a *keyword* argument in Python v2.6.

Fixed in tonight's snapshots.

Thanks,
Phil