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On 3/30/2011 7:58 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
> On Mar 30, 9:28 am, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>> You are trying to run your 3.x code with Python 2.x...
>
> You're right. Exactly why this started happening I don't know.

I believe recent Mac OSX comes with some 2.x installed as the default 
Python.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy