Issue1157

Trying to install pylint on jython I got this

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 188, in <module>
    install()
  File "setup.py", line 171, in install
    return setup(name = distname,
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in
run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 517,
in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 142, in run
    install_lib.install_lib.run(self)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", line
99, in run
    self.byte_compile(outfiles)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", line
133, in byte_compile
    byte_compile(files, optimize=0,
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\distutils\util.py", line 502, in
byte_compile
    compile(file, cfile, dfile)
  File "C:\tools\jython-2.5\Lib\py_compile.py", line 96, in compile
    _py_compile.compile(file, cfile, dfile)
        at org.python.antlr.ParseException.<init>(ParseException.java:39)
        at
org.python.compiler.CodeCompiler.exceptionTest(CodeCompiler.java:1069)
        at
org.python.compiler.CodeCompiler.visitTryExcept(CodeCompiler.java:1227)
        at org.python.antlr.ast.TryExcept.accept(TryExcept.java:106)
        at org.python.antlr.ast.Module.traverse(Module.java:65)
        at org.python.antlr.Visitor.traverse(Visitor.java:12)
        at
org.python.compiler.CodeCompiler.visitModule(CodeCompiler.java:310)
        at org.python.antlr.ast.Module.accept(Module.java:58)
        at org.python.antlr.Visitor.visit(Visitor.java:26)
        at org.python.compiler.CodeCompiler.parse(CodeCompiler.java:269)
        at org.python.compiler.Module.PyCode(Module.java:467)
        at org.python.compiler.Module.compile(Module.java:646)
        at org.python.core.imp.compileSource(imp.java:203)
        at org.python.core.imp.compileSource(imp.java:137)
        at org.python.modules._py_compile.compile(_py_compile.java:47)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor27.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

java.lang.NullPointerException: java.lang.NullPointerException

I'll take this

with r5500 and r5501 it can now be installed