SyntaxError: invalid syntax (related to literal string)

[reikred]

When I run xmltable2csv I get the following error message"

File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xmlutils/console.py", line 20
"""
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The offending code is the triple-double quoted string literal as follows

def run_xml2sql():
print """xml2sql by Kailash Nadh (http://nadh.in)
--help for help

"""

What am I doing wrong here? My python is version 3.4, as you can see. I feel I must be making some basic compatibility mistake or some such, as this can not possibly be a real syntax errror, can it?

[ChillarAnand]

@reikred Thank you for bug report. Unfortunately, xmltuils is not yet compatible with Python 3. You should be able to use it with Python 2.6 or 2.7.

[reikred]

I see. Yes, that is the problem, and it must be a common one. Should the python version not be checked when installing?

I did some web search and found a construct that supposedly should be included in setup.py, but on my system it was not recognized and caused an error. What I tried was the syntax
python_requires='>=2.6,<=2.7',

The package maintainers may perhaps know better how to do this?

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/40300957/3854366
http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html?highlight=python_requires#new-and-changed-setup-keywords

[ankpotter]

If the issue lies with print statements only then you can change the format and it should run fine.
Eg - Change print """etc random information
"""
to
print("""etc random information
""")

This will take care of the print statement related issues. Also, can anyone tell me what other issues are there with the code that makes it incompatible with Python3.

[ChillarAnand]

I guess changing print statements and iterators should do. You can pass codebase through 2to3 tool and it will take care of all this basic changes.

[knadh]

11da2f8 This should address the print() issue.

[reikred]

Thanks for the fix!

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