[Spambayes] SpamBayes crashes silently on Mac OS X

[Kevin Yank]

Yes, I am indeed using 1.0.4. If this is no longer the recommended 
version, the SpamBayes web site should be updated.

I’ve edited the necessary files, and am now running 1.0.4 under Python 
2.5.1. Will report back with a debugger postmortem, or with news that 
this has fixed my crashes.

-Kev.

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Kevin> Now when I launch SpamBayes, I get this:
>
>     Kevin> Starting SpamBayes Server
>     Kevin> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     Kevin>   File "/Library/SpamBayes/sb_server.py", line 104, in <module>
>     Kevin>     import spambayes.message
>     Kevin>   File "/Library/SpamBayes/spambayes/message.py", line 78
>     Kevin>     from __future__ import generators
>     Kevin> SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file
>
>     Kevin> Is SpamBayes not compatible with recent versions of Python?
>
> You're probably using 1.0.4.  I don't think the Mac installer has been
> updated quite awhile.  Just edit /Library/SpamBayes/spambayes/message.py and
> move the from __future__ statement up above the __author__ = statement.
> As I recall there are a couple other places where the from __future__
> statement doesn't occur as the first statement of the file.
>
> You might also try downloading 1.1a4 from www.spambayes.org.  Installing it
> is a simple
>
>     python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/local
>
> after which sb_server.py will be installed in ~/local/bin.
>
> Skip
>
>