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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 <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
>> 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.
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