unexpected syntax errors

From	Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Subject	unexpected syntax errors
Date	2013-05-07 12:02 +0100
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.1403.1367924571.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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A user is getting this error

>
> New issue 8: bad raise syntax
> https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issue/8/bad-raise-syntax
>
> ........
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/svg2rlg.py", line 16, in <module>
>     from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/graphics/renderPDF.py", line 168
>     raise ValueError, 'bad value for textAnchor '+str(text_anchor)
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>

however, I believe that this older syntax is allowed in python 2.7. We've had 
other issues like this raised from various distros which are apparently making 
changes to 2.7 which change the external behaviour eg spelling corrections to 
attribute names. Could this be one of those?
-- 
Robin Becker

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