Bugs item #3433609, was opened at 2011-11-04 10:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by djbarrett You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3433609...

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Status: Open

Resolution: Wont Fix Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett) Assigned to: xqt (xqt) Summary: Patch 3419295 did not fix python 2.4 compatibility

Initial Comment: After the change from 3419295, there is still a syntax error:

sudo python redirect.py double Traceback (most recent call last): File "redirect.py", line 66, in ? import wikipedia as pywikibot File "/usr/local/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 142, in ? from pywikibot import * File "/usr/local/pywikipedia/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 16, in ? from i18n import translate File "/usr/local/pywikipedia/pywikibot/i18n.py", line 14, in ? from plural import plural_rules File "/usr/local/pywikipedia/pywikibot/plural.py", line 17 0 if (n == 0) else ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

$ python version.py Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9725, 2011/11/04, 14:50:26) Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 21 2011, 19:55:41) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

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Comment By: Daniel Barrett (djbarrett)

Date: 2011-11-07 06:50

Message: Thanks. If you are deprecating Python 2.4 officially, could you please document your recommended version number that is the most stable and works with 2.4?

If you don't have access to a 2.4 system I would be happy to help. Just send me a list of POSSIBLE version numbers and I will let you know which ones break.

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-11-07 04:46

Message: However, please feel free to submit a patch that fully fixes 2.4 compatibility. The problem is neither xqt nor me have access to a python 2.4 install anymore, so it's very hard for us to fix it.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to use a __future__ import for this - the operators will have to be rewritten: a if b else c -> [c,a][b] - even though this is horrible in terms of readability. Please mark the locations you change it with a comment with the original ternary operator, and possible a fixed #IIF mark, or something like that (so it could be removed in the future).

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Comment By: xqt (xqt) Date: 2011-11-06 20:54

Message: Depends i18n PLURAL support of some scripts and I won't fix since python 2.4 had it last fix more than 3 years ago and we should declare it as deprecated release for pywikibot support. Upuntu itself no longer bundles 2.4. Please update to 2.7.2 if possible or use an older pywikibot release.

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