RE: [Visualpython-users] bug/typo in latest download (artifact of C)?

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, David Scherer wrote:

> [Bruce writes]
> > Maybe there's a bad copy of graph.py in our Linux distribution files?
>
> No.  The SyntaxError below is caused by the use of the **args syntax,
> which is not supported by Python 1.5.2.  I don't know whether the Linux
> distribution is supposed to run on 1.5.2 or not.  If it is, this line
> needs to be replaced, e.g.
>
>   apply( gvbars.__init__, (self,), args)
>
> If not, the solution is to upgrade to a more recent version of Python.
>
> Dave
>
> > >         gvbars.__init__(self, **args)
> > >                            ^
> > >     SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Man. I seem to keep fixing this in CVS (possibly in multiple places) and it
seems to keep creeping back in.

We could move to python2 on Linux; it would mean a few modifications to the
current packaging tools, but it could be done.


Ari