Problem installing pyParallel module in python

When they said experimental, I didn't expect this much. I mean; a bug even in the installer??? Sheesh! But thanks to the simplicity of python, I could understand the bug and find a solution. If it was for C++ or Java, I would have simply dropped my whole project! ;)

Now that I've found a solution and I couldn't find it listed in the first three pages of Google search results, I want to share it...

My problem was that when I tried to run and install the pyParallel module:
python setup.py install

I got something like:
running install
running build
running build_py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 19, in
package_data = data_files
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
.
.
.
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file[plen:] for file in self.find_data_files(package, src_dir)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/command/build_py.py", line 128, in find_data_files
globs = (self.package_data.get('', [])
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'


Even if looks like we're in deep sh**, we're actually not...
Its just a simple logical error in the way the function is called. In the setup.py,
the function setup should have been called with an argument, "package_data = a dictionary value pair of what & which dependency file is to be installed" if the os is 'nt' & you don't need to give that package_data argument if the os is something else(perhaps there is a default value in the function definition). But our setup.py passes a "package_data = None". So all we have to do is to call the setup function properly without passing a "package_data = None" argument.
Here's what I did to the setup.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from distutils.core import setup

import os
args={"name" : "pyparallel",
"description":"Python Parallel Port Extension",
"version":"0.2", "author":"Chris Liechti",
"author_email":"cliechti@gmx.net",
"url":"http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/",
"packages":['parallel'],
"license":"Python",
"long_description":"Python Parallel Port Extension for Win32, Linux, BSD",
}

if os.name == 'nt': args["package_data"] = {'parallel': ['simpleio.dll']}

setup(**args)