Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: al.basili@gmail.com (alb) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: SyntaxError on progress module Date: 27 May 2015 07:24:21 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net IgqK6cjKnrHCp0eeGv/C9gEofbaffgNmvHLxFnCNFrEEqx7gOw X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:fRg7eweHWdcxbW4W/APJCLoG1UU= User-Agent: tin/2.1.1-20120623 ("Mulindry") (UNIX) (Linux/3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:91286 Hi Chris, Chris Angelico wrote: [] >> Python 3.0 removed the 'u' for unicode in front of strings but due to >> popular demand to ease porting it was reinstated in 3.3. Strip it away and >> you should be fine to go. > > Or upgrade to 3.3 or better; is there anything holding you on 3.2? > Building CPython from source is pretty easy on Debian, and of course > upgrading to Jessie will correspondingly upgrade you to a more recent > Python (3.4, to be precise). I moved recently from squeeze to wheezy in my production environment, I've nothing really holding me back on my current configuration... I'll give it a try in the coming days. Thanks for the prompt answer, Al -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?