Missed one because of indirection.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index e0ae2e5ea27f4ab714cdc97cb80f8a165d07c8f0..917f1d0b93fc596bbd42abe2fe935624174dcf03 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ def grok_environment_error (exc, prefix="error: "):
             # include the filename in the exception object!
             error = prefix + "%s" % exc.strerror
     else:
-        error = prefix + str(exc[-1])
+        error = prefix + str(exc.args[-1])
 
     return error