Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug?] qemu-1.6.0 python traceback in GEN qmp-commands.h

[Erik Rull]

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:21:50 +0100
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 16 August 2013 08:59, Erik Rull <address@hidden> 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