Hi Stewart, 

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:25 +0000, stewart midwinter wrote:
> New submission from stewart midwinter <stewart@midwinter.ca>:
> 
> Setup of the latest rlcompleter2-0.96 fails under Windows XP
> (using "python setup.py install") with Python 2.4, with the
> following exception. It appears that the setup script does
> not envision that there might not be a HOME environment set;
> it should test for None and take appropriate action.
> 
> D:\trash\python\rlcompleter2-0.96>python setup.py install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 2, in ?
>     import rlcompleter2
>   File "D:\trash\python\rlcompleter2-0.96\rlcompleter2.py",
> line 802, in ?
>     def setup(histfn=os.getenv('HOME')+'/.pythonhist',
> verbose=1):
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and
> 'str'

do you happen to have a patch that works for you? 
I can't currently test on Windows XP ... 

thanks, 

    holger