Bug 231386 – net-analyzer/prewikka fails with dev-lang/python-2.5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2008-07-10 07:49:21 UTC]

>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/prewikka-0.9.12.1-r1/work/prewikka-0.9.12.1 ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 36, in <module>
    from Cheetah.CheetahWrapper import CheetahWrapper
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah/CheetahWrapper.py", line 23, in <module>
    from Cheetah.Compiler import Compiler
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py", line 33, in <module>
    from Cheetah.Parser import Parser, ParseError, specialVarRE, STATIC_CACHE, REFRESH_CACHE
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah/Parser.py", line 32, in <module>
    from Cheetah import ErrorCatchers
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah/ErrorCatchers.py", line 16, in <module>
    from Cheetah.NameMapper import NotFound
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Cheetah/NameMapper.py", line 146
    from __future__ import generators
SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file

This holds back Python 2.5 stabilisation

[Comment 1 Bel Zébute 2008-08-26 17:57:02 UTC]

I confirm to have the same.  No fixes?

[Comment 2 Evil Compile Person 2008-10-05 00:57:33 UTC]

CC:ing python herd, shouldn't be hard to fix, I hope.

[Comment 3 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2009-04-12 21:39:10 UTC]

This looks like something with the version of cheetah at the time since this is working completely fine for me on a stable system.