On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > dirknbr wrote: >> I am trying to install simplejson on Python 3.1 on Windows. When I do >> 'python setup.py install' I get 'except DisutilsPlatformError, x: >> SyntaxError' with a dash under the comma. > > You are trying to install a package written for Python 2.x on 3.x, and some > of the 2.x Syntax is illegal in Python 3.
To be specific (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3110/): "the ambiguous except A, B: which would mean different things in Python 2.x and 3.x -- leading to hard-to-catch bugs -- cannot legally occur in 3.x code." The except statement in your error would be properly written in 3.x as: except DisutilsPlatformError as x: Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
