[Mailman-Users] Check_perms reports invalid syntax?

[Mark Sapiro]

Bill Christensen wrote:
>
>I'm setting up a new server with Mailman.
>
>After installing I tried
>	bin/check_perms -f
>and got:
>	file "bin/check_perms", line 44
>	'''
>	   ^
>Syntax error: invalid syntax
>
>I'm running Python 2.5.1.   My existing server, running Mailman 
>2.1.11/Python 2.3, has the same line and no problems with it.
>
>Any ideas?   Do I need to upgrade or patch Python, and if so which 
>2.5 or better version works with Mailman?


Python 2.5.1 should be file for Mailman 2.1.11 or 2.1.12. There is
nothing about the statement
----------------------------------------------------
try:
    import paths
except ImportError:
    print '''Could not import paths!

This probably means that you are trying to run check_perms from the
source
directory.  You must run this from the installation directory instead.
'''
    raise
-----------------------------------------------------

That should throw a syntax error with any Python 2.x version. Is
bin/check_perms garbled somehow. Have you tried diffing it with your
existing server version?

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