[Python-modules-team] Bug#710312: python3-pywapi: ifails to install: SyntaxError in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pywapi.py, line 370

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:48:25PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>, 2013-05-29, 21:22:
> > Setting up python3-pywapi (0.3.2-1) ...
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pywapi.py", line 370
> >     weather_data['geo']['lat'] = u''
> >                                    ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> u'' literals are valid only in Python 2 and in Python >= 3.3.
> Running 2to3 over the code shows that's there are more 2isms:
> xrange(), .has_key().

Worse case, as a patcher (and if you really need to fix this for 3.2),
you *can* add a dependency on six and replace u"foo" --> u("foo").

Cheers,
  Paul

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