[Distutils] distribute-0.6.35 fails on python 3.3?

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

Can anyone else reproduce this?

I have a Python 3.3 virtualenv and I wanted to upgrade one of the 
packages as follows:

$ bin/pip install -U manuel
Requirement already up-to-date: manuel in ./lib/python3.3/site-packages
Downloading/unpacking distribute from 
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.35.tar.gz#md5=e55298c7e3a233df1a47a4881a0c9800 
(from manuel)
   Downloading distribute-0.6.35.tar.gz (644kB): 644kB downloaded
   Running setup.py egg_info for package distribute
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
       File "./setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
         from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
       File "./setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>
         from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
       File "./setuptools/dist.py", line 103
         except ValueError, e:
                          ^
     SyntaxError: invalid syntax
     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
     Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>

   File "./setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>

     from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library

   File "./setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>

     from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched

   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?

cheers.

Chris

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