[Python-projects] smoketest failure python 2.4

[Duncan Findlay]

I just downloaded pylint 0.18.0, and before I start playing with it, I  
wanted to validate my environment by running the unit tests.  
Everything worked fine on Python 2.5 and 2.6, but I had a few failures  
with Python 2.4 in smoketest.py

======================================================================
FAIL: make pylint checking itself
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Traceback (most recent call last)
   File "/home/duncan/downloads/pylint-0.18.0/test/smoketest.py", line  
48, in test1
     self._runtest(['--include-ids=y', 'pylint.lint'],  
reporter=TextReporter(StringIO()))
   File "/home/duncan/downloads/pylint-0.18.0/test/smoketest.py", line  
34, in _runtest
     self.assertEquals(ex.code, code)
AssertionError: 30 != 28

                               no stdout
                               no stderr

(Similarly all the other pylint testing itself checks failed.)

Running pylint on itself with python2.4, I see (among other errors):

E1103:499:PyLinter.check: Instance of 'str' has no 'file' member (but  
some types could not be inferred)

Am I missing something, or is this a bug (in the tests, astng or  
otherwise).

Thanks

Duncan