On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 26/05/2015 16:48, alb wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've installed the 'progress' module (ver 1.2) and I have the following >> error when used: >> >> File >> "/home/debian/repos/2418_IASI-NG/Documents/Tools/tex_tool/venv/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/progress/bar.py", >> line 48 >> empty_fill = u'∙' >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> I'm running in a virtual environment with python3.2 > > Python 3.0 removed the 'u' for unicode in front of strings but due to > popular demand to ease porting it was reinstated in 3.3. Strip it away and > you should be fine to go.
Or upgrade to 3.3 or better; is there anything holding you on 3.2? Building CPython from source is pretty easy on Debian, and of course upgrading to Jessie will correspondingly upgrade you to a more recent Python (3.4, to be precise). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
