Re: Can't build today's git pull

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:47:24PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
>> > I won't pretend to know how python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1 all
>> > treat this syntax, so could somebody who knows python take a look at
>> > the current convert-ly and make it work on 2.4.5 and up?
>>
>> From the docs at python.org it seems like the comma syntax for exception
>> variables works also with 2.4. But as I don't have any python 3.x around, I
>> can't tell whether it still works with 3.0 and 3.1 (the docs completely
>> switched to using "as" instead...).
>
> Let's go with the comma syntax, then.  We probably have other
> problems with the 3.0 switch.

This is of the "incompatible" changes in Python 3.* as compared to Python 2.*

The details are here:

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3110/

So, yeah, let's go with the comma syntax for now.

Thanks,
Patrick