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Improve error message when there's no space before semicolon (PEP 508 URL requirement) #494
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It’s likely importlib.metadata’s fault. It automatically converts egg-info-style requirements (which is used by legacy editables) to PEP 508-style, and the conversion went wrong. cc @jaraco the easiest fix would be to add a space before the semicolon here |
I can't transfer across orgs, but the repo is https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata . |
Thanks both! :-) Created a new issue in importlib_metadata |
I'm gonna reopen this, to track adding a better error message for this; especially once #484 is merged. |
Closing this, since there's a more targetted issue for this in #529 now. |
I'm not fully sure whether this is packaging's fault (or importlib.metadata or pip or setuptools), but here's what I'm seeing:
Or more concisely, but with less justification:
Thank you!
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