[Tutor] Building Python 2.7.3 on RHEL 5.8 x86_64 -- Syntax Error

[Sean Carolan]

I'm attempting to use setup.py to build an RPM, but ran into this error:

[scarolan at cobbler:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/Python-2.7.3]$ python27 setup.py
bdist_rpm

  File "setup.py", line 361
    with open(tmpfile) as fp:
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8897 (%build)

It appears the syntax error is striggered when "python setup.py build" is
run from that temporary bash script (/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8897):

+ cd
/home/scarolan/rpmbuild/BUILD/Python-2.7.3/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/BUILD
+ cd Python-2.7.3
+ env 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -m64 -mtune=generic' python setup.py build
  File "setup.py", line 361
    with open(tmpfile) as fp:
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any ideas how to fix this?  The documentation on this topic is quite scarce.
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