Comment 2 for bug 498892

btw you might want the error messages given by Ubuntu's version :

strider@astoria:~/dev$ doclifter
  File "/usr/bin/doclifter", line 388
    (mark, token, as, markup) = line[5:].split()

strider@astoria:~$ doclifter XvGetStill.3 File "/usr/bin/doclifter", line 6381
    def replacemacro(self, args, with):
                                                  ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax

strider@astoria:~$ doclifter XvGetStill.3
/usr/bin/doclifter:129: DeprecationWarning: The sre module is deprecated, please import re.
  import sys, os, glob, re, sre, string, exceptions, copy, tempfile, time, pprint