cmd/ftp: don't die if we can't import the ctypes module.

[bup.git] / cmd / ftp-cmd.py

diff --git a/cmd/ftp-cmd.py b/cmd/ftp-cmd.py
index f61b1eef13c4665a69d46f993d20c9a0e3a130a5..f103a61f3867e344b6c3330d8cf09366202004f6 100755 (executable)
--- a/cmd/ftp-cmd.py
+++ b/cmd/ftp-cmd.py
@@ -97,7 +97,13 @@ def find_readline_lib():
 def init_readline_vars():
     """Work around trailing space automatically inserted by readline.
     See http://bugs.python.org/issue5833"""
-    import ctypes
+    try:
+        import ctypes
+    except ImportError:
+        # python before 2.5 didn't have the ctypes module; but those
+        # old systems probably also didn't have this readline bug, so
+        # just ignore it.
+        return
     lib_name = find_readline_lib()
     if lib_name is not None:
         lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(lib_name)