Hi there, Kristian. Unfortunately, bpython depends on at least Python 2.5. The rationale for this is that, since bpython is a developer's tool, we expect our users to be "power users" (or whatever a good term is) and so would have Python 2.5 or 2.6 installed. While I strongly advocate writing backend code for Python 2.4 (we run CentOS on our servers here at work, for example), my opinion is that developers' tools should not have to meet this criterion.
We dropped Python 2.4 support several months ago and this is the first time I have heard anybody asking for 2.4 support, so it seems that you are, unfortunately, a rather small minority. I suggest you upgrade to Python 2.5 or 2.6. Sorry if this is not possible but I hope you understand that supporting Python 2.4 would harm our development and so would negatively affect all our other users for the sake of a very small handful of users running 2.4. That said, if you would like to fork the bpython project and provide 2.4 compatibility and maintain it (we do not release very often so I doubt it would be much work) then I would be more than happy to link to it from the bpython website. (Also, sorry if this message doesn't get wrapped to 80 columns, I don't use gmail very often). Kind regards, On Jan 8, 9:52 pm, Kristian Thy <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to try bpython but I am thwarted when installing: > > $ python setup.py install > File "setup.py", line 56 > scripts = ([] if using_setuptools else ['data/bpython', > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > We are running python 2.4.4. What is the minimum required version? > > Thanks, > Kristian
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