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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug?] qemu-1.6.0 python traceback in GEN
	qmp-commands.h
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:21:50 +0100
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 16 August 2013 08:59, Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> when using the released qemu-1.6.0.tar.bz2, I get the following error message:
>>>    File "/home/erik/qemu-1.6.0/scripts/qapi.py", line 164
>>>      except QAPISchemaError as e:
>>>                              ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> make: *** [qmp-commands.h] Error 1
>>
>> My guess is that your python is older than 2.6; I think
>> the "except Foo as e" syntax is new in 2.6. We probably
>> missed this because most people use a newer Python than
>> 2.6, but configure's check only requires 2.4 or better.
>>
>> We should probably update the scripts to not use overly
>> new features (or alternatively decide that 2.6 is our new
>> minimum -- what do RHEL5 and our other oldest-supported
>> distros ship?)
>>
>> For this specific case I think it needs to change to
>>       except QAPISchemaError, e:
>
> Erik, can you try that and post a patch? Would be interesting
> to know if this is the only problem with older python.
>

Yes, I will try that. I never really tried to send patches to this list...
My python version is 2.4 - as it was assumed already.

Best regards,

Erik