firmware-tools require python2.4?

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

Hi Michael,

I'm getting the following error with firmware-tools on a RHEL4 machine:

# inventory_firmware
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/inventory_firmware", line 98, in ?
    sys.exit( main() )
  File "/usr/bin/inventory_firmware", line 79, in main
    for pkg in firmwaretools.clifuncs.runInventory(ini):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/clifuncs.py", 
line 83, in runSomething
    dprint(traceback.format_exc())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'format_exc'

# rpm -q firmware-tools python
firmware-tools-1.5.4-1.el4.noarch
python-2.3.4-14.4.x86_64

It looks like traceback.format_exc() has been introduced in Python 2.4.  
I've also noticed some generator expressions which will probably make 
versions <=2.4 yell.

Is there an explicit dependency upon Python 2.4 that I may have missed, 
or are firmware-tools supposed to work with Python 2.3 too?

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian