txsjoinatoroutputfile.py exception syntax

[Bozleclerc]

env:
Ubuntu 2.6.31-22-server x86_64
python 2.5

I got an error while i try to use tuxtremsplit:
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/tuxtremsplit/core/txsjoinatoroutputfile.py", line 55
    except IOError as e:
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

i just replaced 'as' with a ',' and it worked.

[Guillaume Hain (zedtux)]

Thanks for reporting bug.

Could you provide a complete test case ?
How did you do to have it fail ?

[Bozleclerc (boz-yopmail)]

I had an old version (can't remember, but it was an alpha) of tuxtremsplit.
So yesterday I add your repository (ppa:zedtux/tuxtremsplit), update it, remove my previous tuxtemsplit then install the new one.
at the end of the installation process i had the message displaying the syntax error with the 'as'.
I tried to launch tuxtremsplit, got the same message.
I edit the txsjoinatoroutputfile.py, remove the 'as' at line 55 and replace it with a coma.
That is all what i did...

[Guillaume Hain (zedtux)]

Okay, thank you for details.

As I can see, you're using python 2.5. It should be the origin of the issue. It's very odd that this happened during installation step.

I will install a Virtual Machine with hardy (seems to be the version with python 2.5) and check the issue.

[Guillaume Hain (zedtux)]

This bug report helped me to fix another bug:

When output file creation failed, TuXtremSplit doesn't care about exception :s
Now it's fixed with commit http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zedtux/tuxtremsplit/trunk/revision/166

[Guillaume Hain (zedtux)]

The commit also fixed this bug report. :)