[Tutor] Trying to read dBase files
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Tue Mar 11 21:09:21 CET 2014
Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> Wrote in message:
> On 11/03/14 18:39, Al Bull wrote:
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>> I am using Python 3.3. I did some google searches and found something
>> called dbfpy to read dbase, so I downloaded and installed it.
>>
>> File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\dbfpy\dbf.py", line 260
>> print repr(_rec)
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> You are using Python 3.3 so print is a function.
> You need to use
>
> print( repr(_rec) )
>
>> My assumption is that this module is written for an earlier release of
>> Python?
>
> That may be true too, but your problem is in the print line.
Which is in the dbfpy code.
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DaveA
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