Be robust when the shared distribution object exists does not have data_files set. This can happen when easy_install automatically builds dependencies.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py b/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
index 770829349..11992374a 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ class Configuration(object):
         assert not is_glob_pattern(d),`d`
 
         dist = self.get_distribution()
-        if dist is not None:
+        if dist is not None and dist.data_files is not None:
             data_files = dist.data_files
         else:
             data_files = self.data_files
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ class Configuration(object):
         assert not is_glob_pattern(d),`d,filepat`
 
         dist = self.get_distribution()
-        if dist is not None:
+        if dist is not None and dist.data_files is not None:
             data_files = dist.data_files
         else:
             data_files = self.data_files