[Tutor] trouble using 2to3.py

[Luke Paireepinart]

Are you sure you're using the 3.1 version of Python to run the script?
Welcome back, btw.  haven't heard from you in a while.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm in the process to learning Python 3.1, and need to convert a bunch
> of handy functions I wrote and stole over several years. They are all
> written in 2.x, and are together in one file, mycalc.py.
>
> I created a folder E:\Python31\temp\ (my OS is Vista SP1 64-bit), and
> in it I placed copies of mycalc.py, 2to3.py, and a folder, lib2to3\  .
>
> Then I tried
> E:\Python31\temp>2to3.py -w mycalc.py
>
> and got
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "E:\Python31\temp\2to3.py", line 2, in <module>
>    from lib2to3.main import main
>  File "E:\Python31\temp\lib2to3\main.py", line 33
>    except os.error as err:
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> How have others dealt with this?
>
> Dick Moores
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