-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/2013 04:20 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:17:29AM +0000, Paul Moore wrote: >> On 26 February 2013 06:21, Chris Withers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> File "./setuptools/dist.py", line 103 except ValueError, e: ^ >>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> >>> Can other people reproduce this? When was that Python 3 >>> incompatible except clause introduced? >> >> I quite often see this, it's usually because something that pip is >> doing (building the metadata/dependency stuff, the actual code >> build is fine) is failing to run 2to3. >> >> I can't offer anything in the way of a fix, I'm afraid... > > How hard would it be to rewrite distribute to use a common language > subset instead of relying on 2to3?
The sheer number of developer hours saved by not waiting for the 2to3 run every time a Py3k virtualenv is created should dwarf whatever effort is involve. Any volunteers to "take on for the team"? Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEs/CAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6oEgCcDobQyI2TbW5Ev0NDtxAOqSlJ GBwAn3F4NMJ9nzY1/xmkxcvJdW8hceYp =Bbmr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
