[Distutils] [venv] distribute-0.6.35 fails on python 3.3?

[Paul Moore]

On 26 February 2013 06:21, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>   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?

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...
Paul