3.4rc2 and pip on windows
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 3 14:47:36 EST 2014
On 03/03/2014 00:07, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/2/2014 6:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Trying to install pyttsx, it doesn't strike me as very clever that, as
>> seen below, you get "Successfully installed pyttsx" despite the syntax
>> errors and you can't actually do an import.
>>
>> c:\Users\Mark\CrossCode>c:\Python34\Scripts\pip3.4.exe install pyttsx
>> Downloading/unpacking pyttsx
>> Downloading pyttsx-1.1.tar.gz
>> Running setup.py
>> (path:C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_Mark\pyttsx\setup.py)
>> egg_info for package pyttsx
>>
>> Installing collected packages: pyttsx
>> Running setup.py install for pyttsx
>> File "C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\pyttsx\driver.py", line 105
>> except Exception, e:
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
>> [other syntax errors snipped]
>>
>> Successfully installed pyttsx
>
> A bug it seems to me.
>
>> Cleaning up...
>>
>> c:\Users\Mark\CrossCode>py -3.4
>> Python 3.4.0rc2 (v3.4.0rc2:a300712ed38c, Feb 23 2014, 10:49:04) [MSC
>> v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import pyttsx
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pyttsx\__init__.py", line 18, in
>> <module>
>> from engine import Engine
>>
>> I've looked at pyttsx in my 3.3 site-packages and it appears that I've
>> manually run 2to3. Is this something that could be done automatically
>> by pip? Your thoughts please, ladies and gentlemen.
>
> I should hope so.
>
FTR I raised this as http://bugs.python.org/issue20846 and it was closed
11 minutes after I raised it. I won't say anything else as I'm
extremely tired and irritable and might well regret it later.
--
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Mark Lawrence
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