Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 800044
Please follow upstream behavior when DISPLAY not found
Last modified: 2013-02-26 10:10:40 EST
Description of problem: pygtk-2.10.1-4 introduced "pygtk-nodisplay-exception.patch" in order to fix bug #208608. This patch changes the default upstream behavior when a display is not found, from printing a warning to raising an ImportError. It's been there for +5 years, is it still required? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.24.0-3.fc15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ unset DISPLAY $ python >>> import gtk Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Expected results: The module should load with a warning: >>> import gtk /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) Extra information: PyGTK 2.10 changelog describing the "new" behavior: http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew210
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