Pylons rely on WebOb. In dependencies, it requires the installation of WebOb> = 1.3.1.
WebOb 1.3.1 provides the "exception" attribute. This attribute is used by Pylons in the redirect code.
This attribute has been deprecated for some time and was originally planned for removal in 1.3.
May 14, 2014 WebOb 1.4 was released. Although not included in the release notes, one of the changes was to remove the exception attribute .
Therefore, if you install Pylons 1.0.1 and let it select all its dependencies, it will include a version of WebOb that it is no longer compatible with.
This explains the problem.
( : WebObs? Pylons 1.0.2? ?)