Re: [Docutils-users] unintentional print?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Dear Alan,

thank you for reporting. This is fixed now in the SVN repo.

On 2018-01-03, Alan Isaac wrote:
> I'm guessing that 2to3 conversion is used to support Python 3,

Yes, this is still required. (For fast install, we provide pre-converted
"wheels" on pypi.)

> but somehow I recently managed to choke on:

> File "docutils\utils\math\tex2mathml_extern.py", line 130
>      print err

> Although this could be "fixed" with parentheses, but
> I'm guessing the very existence of this line is an oversight.

> Cheers,
> Alan Isaac

> PS While looking, I noticed old style exception syntax in use.
> I assume this is intentional (i.e., let the converter handle it)
> and that you know Python 2's

>      except IOError, err:

> could be written without any need for 2to3 conversion as

>      except IOError:
>          err = sys.exc_info()[1]

Actually, since we dropped support for Python < 2.6 we can now also use the
simpler

   except IOError as err:
   
and other python-3-save constructs.

Günter