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Error while installing Python-3 #49253

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vani mannequin opened this issue Jan 19, 2009 · 2 comments
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Error while installing Python-3 #49253

vani mannequin opened this issue Jan 19, 2009 · 2 comments
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vani mannequin commented Jan 19, 2009

BPO 5003
Nosy @pitrou

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vani mannequin commented Jan 19, 2009

i was trying to install python 3 using the folowing command
$ python setup.py --home=~/python3

and i got the below error:

File "setup.py", line 232
except (CCompilerError, DistutilsError) as why:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Could anyone please help me with the problem?

Thanks,
Vani

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pitrou commented Jan 19, 2009

setup.py is not meant to be called directly (it will be called by the
Python 3 interpreter as part of the build process and is, therefore,
written in Python 3 syntax).

The proper command sequence to build and install Python is:

./configure --prefix=~/python3
make
make install

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