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git-p4, SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Subject: git-p4, SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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2 messages between Dec 2, 2008 and Dec 2, 2008.

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Gary Yang· Dec 2, 2008, 19:08 UTC · lore

I got git-p4 from “git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git” I copied git-p4 from contrib/fast-import/git-p4 to /home/gyang/bin

I got SyntaxError  when I ran,

git-p4 clone //depot/Workshop

/home/gyang/bin/git-p4:161: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
  File "/user/svdc/pluo/bin/git-p4", line 161
    yield pattern
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I opened the file, git-p4. There are three import lines. I am not python programmer. Maybe I missed something in python? I have python installed at /usr/local/bin/python

which python /usr/local/bin/python

vi git-p4 import optparse, sys, os, marshal, popen2, subprocess, shelve import tempfile, getopt, sha, os.path, time, platform import re

Can someone tell me what I missed?

Thanks.

Jason Foreman· Dec 2, 2008, 19:45 UTC · re: Gary Yang · lore

Re: git-p4, SyntaxError: invalid syntax

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> /home/gyang/bin/git-p4:161: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
>  File "/user/svdc/pluo/bin/git-p4", line 161
>    yield pattern
>                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>

This seems to indicate that your python doesn't support the "yield" keyword (used in generators).

Are you using Python 2.2? If so, that is a very old Python and I'd recommend upgrading. But even with 2.2 you can fix this by adding the following import line:

from __future__ import generators

I'm not familiar with the git-p4 file specifically but the above should hopefully fix your problem.

Cheers,

Jason