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Re: Lots of Python failures on Centos 5.10

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lots of Python failures on Centos 5.10
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:40:57 -0400
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <54114E71.50900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:25:37 +1000")
References: <540CDD93.1040606@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <54114E71.50900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)
kenj wrote:

> [...]
> The problem here is the version of Python ... it is 2.4.3 on CentOS
> 5.10.  For Python 2.5 or earlier, "as" is not allowed and "," must be
> used.
>
> So I need Python-expert guidance here ... in PCPland should we
>
> (a) disable all the Python bits for Python 2.5 or earlier?
> (b) use the old-style "," everywhere (which apparently works in later
> versions)? or
> (c) is there some clever Python trick I'm missing?

I can't claim much python-expertise, but (b) makes sense to me if
other python bits generally work on <= 2.5.

- FChE

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