Re: SyntaxError

Andy Sy <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:30:51 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.spyce.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Martin,


> I have tried to install spyce and I have got the following message:
> 
> [root@secure spyce]# python -u spyceCmd.py -l
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "spyceCmd.py", line 12, in <module>
>     import spyce, spyceException, spyceUtil, spyceCompile, spycePreload
>   File "/usr/share/spyce/spyce.py", line 549
>     def _startModule(self, name, file=None, as=None, force=0):
>                                              ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> I am using Python 2.6.5

"as" is now a reserved keyword in Python 2.6.5 (and 2.5 too?), and
Spyce has not yet been updated to remove these instances.  We use
Spyce here in production and we basically rename and make these
changes manually across the source.

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