On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:59 PM, AliasXNeo <joshuagil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently downloaded the latest Official release of Django for > installation on my Windows XP OS. After copying the appropriate files > over to the site-packages folder in the python installation, I > attempted to create a test project to insure correct installation by > invoking the command: django-admin.py startproject testproject. Python > returns a syntax error, pointing to a spot in django/__init__.py on > line 15 where the code is: if svn_rev != u'SVN-known' :. Now clearly > the random u before the first quote is not supposed to be there, and > removing it fixes the syntax error. The problem is after fixing it > another syntax error is brought up with the same problem, random > characters where they are not supposed to be. > > The problem is intriguing, and I attempted to download and install the > official release 3 more times and then proceeded to get the latest > develepor release from SVN only to get the same exact problem. I'm > running the latest version of Python 3 on standard Windows XP. My > question is, why are these random syntax errors showing up and how can > I fix it? > > > > That charecter is most assuradley supposed to be there u indicates the string is a unicode literal. Django does not work with Python 3.0 as documented. It works with Python 2.3-2.6. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
