Re: [Configobj-develop] Minor bug: validate.py needs higer Python version

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Hi Robert,

*Damn*. That could be a straight list comprehension and it should work 
fine on Python 2.3. I'll fix that in a future release...

Michael

Robert Nikutta wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> today it's about validate.py. I'm using the wonderful combination of
> configobj.py and validate.py (v0.3.1), which work great, thanks a lot
> for this.
>
> Today I tried to run this on an other machine that has Python 2.3.4
> installed (CentOS). This failed, complaining about syntax error in
> validate.py. Here's the traceback:
>
> -----
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./clumpy.py", line 1196, in ?
>     import configobj, validate
>   File "src/python/validate.py", line 627
>     fun_kwargs = dict((str(key), value) for (key, value) in
> fun_kwargs.items())
>                                           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> -----
>
> I see that the code states that Python >= 2.2 should be fine, but it
> obviously isn't.
>
> I installed Python 2.5.2, and it runs again, of course.
>
> Best,
> Robert
>
>