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From: al.basili@gmail.com (alb)
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Subject: Re: SyntaxError on progress module
Date: 27 May 2015 07:30:31 GMT
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Hi Mark,
Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>    File "/home/debian/repos/2418_IASI-NG/Documents/Tools/tex_tool/venv/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/progress/bar.py", line 48
>>      empty_fill = u'∙'
>>                        ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
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> 
> 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.

I'm not particularly comfortable in fiddling with the library source, 
even if the change seems really minor, therefore I guess that I'll 
upgrade to a more recent version of Python/Debian. 

But here I have another question, as a python novice is there really any 
reason for me to use any particular version of Python?

Should I start directly with the newest? What about 2.7?

Al